An
Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death,
including 16 in absentia, on charges of bomb making and planning attacks on
public and private infrastructure, judicial sources said.
The
charges also included having extremist views and forming an illegal group, the
sources said.
Those
sentenced had been arrested in 2015.
The
Cairo criminal court sentenced four other people in the same case to life in
prison and three others to 15 years.
Egypt’s
life sentence is 25 years.
Those
who were in court to hear their verdicts on Thursday can appeal the decision
within 60 days.
Egypt
has cracked down on suspected extremists since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
led the overthrow of former president Mohamed Mursi of the now banned Muslim
Brotherhood.
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