2 killed as police forces, armed men clash in northern Egypt
At least two people have been killed when clashes broke out between security forces and a group of anti-government armed men in the country’s northern central province of Faiyum, Press TV reports.
Major General Younes al-Gaher, the Faiyum security head, said two supporters of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood movement were killed as they engaged in a firefight with Egyptian police in the village of Tamia, situated more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of the capital, Cairo, on Friday.
More death verdicts
Meanwhile, an Egyptian court has handed down preliminary death sentences to twelve defendants on charges of plotting attacks against police and army forces.
The court in the northern Egyptian province of Sharqiya issued the verdicts on Thursday and then sent the papers to Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam, Egypt’s Grand Mufti, to review the decisions.
The opinion of the mufti is not binding to the court, but Egyptian law makes it necessary for judges to seek a religious point of view on any death sentence.
The court will deliver its final verdict in the case on September 12.
The defendants are accused of “recruiting youths and sending them to Syria and Iraq to receive training [on militancy] and how to use weapons.” Six of the defendants are being tried in absentia.
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically-elected president, was toppled in a military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s current president and the then army commander, in July 2013.
Since Morsi’s removal, thousands of anti-government protesters, mostly Brotherhood supporters, have been sentenced to jail. Hundreds of the ex-president’s supporters, including Morsi himself, have also been sentenced to death.
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