Egypt prosecutor orders third mass trial for 919 islamists

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Egypt prosecutor orders third mass trial for 919 islamists

Associated Press
theguardian.com, Wednesday 26 March 2014 17.54 GMT

Egypt's chief prosecutor on Wednesday ordered two new mass trials for 919 suspected Islamists on charges that include murder, despite international criticism of an earlier trial that issued death sentences against hundreds of defendants.

Students, most of them Islamists, held protests on Wednesday against the death sentences in several universities, turning into clashes with security forces that left one 18-year-old student dead at Cairo University, the health ministry said.

The new trials will be held in Minya province, south of Cairo, where a judge on Monday sentenced 529 defendants to death on charges of killing a police officer during an attack on a police station last summer.

The verdict brought an outcry from rights groups and criticism from the UN, EU and US over the cursory trial, which lasted only two sessions and in which lawyers said they were denied the right to make their case or question witnesses.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/26/egypt-prosecutor-third-mass-trial-919

[pipoman]

1. Hmmm..sounds like that could end with a job opening. .

[Scootaloo]

2. Ahhh, mass trials with death sentences, due to political affiliation

The "Path to Democracy," according to the head of the state department.

[Purveyor]

3. Indeed. Neoconista foreign policy 'on parade'. eom

[Scootaloo]

4. There was a poster, not too long ago...

Who upon hearing that Java was considering a ban on alcoholic beverages, lamented the loss of Suharto's rule over Indonesia.

I wonder if he's pleased by the rise of an Egyptian take on the concept.