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#kerdasa massacre

The Giza Criminal Court ratified on Monday death sentences served to 183 defendants accused of killing policemen in the events dubbed by the media as the "Kerdasa massacre", after consulting Egypt's Grand Mufti. One-hundred and eighty five defendants were referred to Egypt’s Grand Mufti on December 2, 2014 to consider their death sentences. The prosecution had referred 188 defendants to court, accusing them of breaking into the main police station in Kerdasa, a town 14 km from Cairo, killing at least 11…