Aswat Masriya (Cairo)

Egypt: 21 Defendants Receive Death Penalty in Football Massacre Trial

26 January 2013
Photo: Xinhua/STR
Protesters gather at Tahrir square during a demonstration against president Muhammad Morsi in Cairo, Dec. 1, 2012. Egypt's Constituent Assembly (CA) approved almost unanimously the final draft of constitution early Friday morning.

Port Said Criminal Court on Saturday sentenced to death 21 defendants accused of involvement in killing 74 people during riots that followed a football match in Port Said last February.

The court said that a list of the 21 names will be "referred to the Mufti", a legal phrase that denotes a death sentence after taking the views of the Mufti. The Mufti usually endorses court sentences.

The court set March 9 as a date to announce the verdicts on all other defendants.

The 21 defendants sentenced to death are: Mohamed al-Danaf, Outa al-Shaytan, Mohamed al-Sayed Mostafa, al-Sayed Mahmoud Khalaf, Mohamed Adel Shehata, Ahmed Fathi Ali, Hisham al-Badri, Mahmoud Mohamed al-Boghdadi, Fouad al-Tabei, Mohamed Shabaan Hassanein, Nasser Samir, Hassan Mohamed, Mohamed Hussein, Ahmed Reda Mohamed, Ahmed Mohamed al-Nagdi, Tarek Asran, Abdel Azim Gharib, Mohsen Mohamed, Wael Youssef Abdel Kader, Mohamed Desouki, and Mahmoud Ali Abdel Rahman.

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