EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCE 13 TO DEATH FOR PRISON ESCAPE

In the city of Ismailiyah, the local criminal court sentenced to death 13 people, witnesses and local newspapers said, including some whom court officials had described as takfiris, a reference to Islamist militants. They said they had escaped from a prison in October 2016.
Six of the convicted men were in custody while seven were tried in absentia, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on its website.
The rulings are subject to appeals before the sentences are carried out.