The Cairo Appeals Court approved on Sunday handing death sentences for nine suspects for their involvement in the assassination of Egypt’s top Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat in a car bomb in 2015. Earlier in July 2017, the Cairo Criminal Court issued its verdict in the case. The court handed 28 suspects death sentences, life sentences to 15 others and imprisonment of 10 suspects for 10 years. He is expected to be delivered to the Egyptian authorities after investigations by the LNA are concluded. In June 2015, Barakat, 64, was killed in a car bomb attack against his envoy in Cairo.

Source: Daily News Egypt November 25, 2018 16:41 UTC