An Egyptian court on Sunday (November 25th) upheld death sentences for nine people convicted of the murder of a top prosecutor in a car bombing three years ago, AFP reported.
Hisham Barakat was killed in June 2015 when a bomb struck his convoy in Cairo.
Two years later, an Egyptian criminal court sentenced 28 people to death for their involvement in his murder, with only 15 defendants present in court for the verdict at the time.
On Sunday, Egypt's court of cassation confirmed the death sentence for nine of the 15, while reducing the sentences of the six others to life imprisonment, a judicial source said.
The verdicts of the other defendants were not considered because they had been sentenced in absentia.
No one claimed the attack against Barakat.
