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| Subject: In Egypt a cry of outrage is met with death Sat Mar 29, 2014 7:46 pm | |
| No.309 on a list of 529 people condemned to die – a lawyer jailed alongside the people he had spent months trying to help, caught up in the relentless crackdown against anyone who dares to challenge Egypt’s military-backed government.
But as a son of the town of Matai in Egypt’s Nile Delta, 36-year-old Ahmed Eid Ahmed Telb is not alone in this fate. In this modest municipality of 50,000 residents, the extraordinary mass conviction means approximately one in every 100 citizens of Matai was sentenced to death on Monday.
The presiding judge allowed just two short sessions of 30 minutes and one hour to hear the case in which no evidence was presented, many of the defendants were tried in absentia and many defence lawyers were prevented from attending the trial.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/in-egypt-a-cry-of-outrage-is-met-with-death-20140329-35pvu.html#ixzz2xOm07Org |
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