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Suez pig gets 15 years for murder

Posted on 17/03/200931/01/2021 By 3arabawy

A low ranking police officer who fatally shot a man has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
Alaa Tharwat Abdel Maqsoud was convicted yesterday by a court in Suez of murdering Muhammad Nasr Ibrahim.
According to the Torture in Egypt website, Ibrahim, a milkman was killed after an altercation over a driving license which occurred in a public square in Suez in 2007.
Ibrahim’s license application procedures had not been completed when he was stopped by Abdel Maqsoud while riding a motorbike, and was unable to hand over a license when Ibrahim demanded one of him.
Abdel Maqsoud responded by attempting to confiscate Ibrahim’s motorbike. When the latter refused, Abdel Maqsoud shot him in the neck at point blank range.
Abdel Maqsoud pleaded self-defense during the trial.
The heavy prison sentence is unusual in Egypt, where violations by the police are routine but officers rarely held to account, or handed down relatively light sentences.
Haitham Mohamadein, a lawyer with the Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence who represented the victim’s family, told Daily News Egypt that he attributes the sentence to the “large numbers of eyewitnesses” who saw the incident and “the extremely narrow margin available for tampering with evidence”.

Jubilation as corrupt NDP ferry owner sentenced

Posted on 12/03/200918/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Mamdouh Ismail, the corrupt NDP Upper House member, and the owner of the sunken ferry, has been finally sentenced to prison.

I’m told that’s where Mamdouh lives in London:
Flat 53, Abbey Lodge, Park Road, London NW8 7RL
Can someone in Britain please verify this?

Mahalla 49 Trial: 22 convicted

Posted on 15/12/200807/02/2021 By 3arabawy

It’s a sad day!

An Egyptian emergency court convicted 22 people for participating in deadly food riots in April, handing out sentences ranging from three to five years, the presiding judge said.
The remaining 27 defendants in the high profile case held in the northern provincial capital of Tanta 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Cairo, were acquitted, Judge Alsayyed Abdel-Maaboud told The Associated Press.
Defendants screamed at the judge calling him unjust when the verdicts were read out, with some fainting, according to witnesses inside the court.
Thousands of residents of the gritty industrial town of Mahalla al-Kobra rioted in April for two days over the hardships caused by high food prices, destroying posters of the president and clashing with security troops.
The demonstrations were quashed by tear gas and shotgun-wielding security forces who killed three people and arrested dozens of others.