SHAFAQNA- An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for the 2013 killings of a prominent Shia leader, Hassan Shahata, and three other members of the shrinking Egyptian Shia Muslim community.
In June of 2013, four Shia Muslims, including cleric Hassan Shehata, were killed by a mob in Egypt‘s Giza province south of capital Cairo.
The case is known in media as the “Shia strife.” The defendants carried Molotov cocktails, sticks and bladed weapons, and headed to the crime scene represented in Zawyet Abou Muslim village in Giza’s Abou al-Noumros where the four victims were, Egypt Today told.
In 2017, Giza Criminal Court sentenced nine people to 14 years in prison over complicity in the crime.
On Thursday, Saad Mahmhoud, a tenth defendant convicted of involvement in Shehata’s murder, was likewise slapped with 14 years behind bars, haberler reported.
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