Cassation Court upholds death sentences against 21 defendants of Ansar Beit Maqdes group

CAIRO - 25 November 2021: The Cassation Court upheld on Thursday death sentences against 21 defendants of Ansar Beit al-Maqdes terror group over terrorism-related charges.

Cassation court’s rulings cannot be appealed.

As part of Thursday's ruling, the court also upheld the life-in-prison sentence to 45 other defendants, 10-year prison terms to 21 others, and ruled to sentence to 5-year prison terms 52 other defendants in the same case.

The defendants are fined EGP 198,700,000 as temporary civil compensation.

The Cairo Criminal Court issued its initial ruling in March 2020, in the case known in the media as the "Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis" case, which includes 208 defendants.

Terrorist Hisham Ashmawy was one of the defendants in the case, and he was executed in the same month last year.