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A Cyprus court ordered on Friday the extradition of the 59-year-old Egyptian who hijacked EgyptAir flight MS181 with a fake bomb vest. According to Reuters, citing Cyprus News Agency, Seif Al-Din Mostafa failed to convince the court that if returned to Egypt he would not receive a fair trial. Egypt’s Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek had issued the extradition request, which was approved by the Cypriot government, for the suspected Egyptian hijacker on March 31 on the basis of a 1996 bilateral…