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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·DECEMBER 31, 2007
Egypt

EGYPT MP SENTENCED TO DEATH

a parliamentarian in Egypt was sentenced to death in absentia in December.

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a parliamentarian in Egypt was sentenced to death in absentia in December. An Alexandria court found Abdel-Azim Hamzawy, currently on the run, guilty of murdering a man who threatened to blow the whistle on Hamzawy's possession of a forged deed to a house in a Cairo suburb, newspapers reported.
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  • (Sources: Reuters, 14/01/2008)