Five dead Palestinians are among 106 defendants referred by an Egyptian court to the grand mufti, Egypt’s top religious authority, to consider death sentences against them on jailbreak charges.
The court on Saturday referred 106 people, including ousted President Mohamed Morsi, to the mufti on charges of taking part in a mass jailbreak during Egypt’s 2011 revolution that ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.
According to the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, five dead Palestinians were among those referred to the mufti.
The list includes Raed al-Attar, a member of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing, who was killed in an Israeli attack in August 2014.
There is also Hossam al-Sanae, a member of Islamic Jihad group who was killed in an Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2008.
The list also includes Tayseer Abu Sneima, Mohamed Samir Abu Lebda and Mohamed Khalil Abu Shawesh, who were killed in 2011, 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Among the defendants is also Hassan Salama, a Palestinian prisoner who has been serving a life sentence in Israeli since 1996.
“This [court verdict] is a fabrication,” Salama’s brother, Akram, told Anadolu Agency.
“My brother has been imprisoned in Israel since 1996,” he said.
He said that Egyptian intelligence agents had met his brother inside an Israeli prison during negotiations on a prisoner swap deal between Palestinians and Israel.
In 2011, Egypt brokered a swap deal between Israel and Palestinians under which the former freed 1,027 prisoners in exchange for the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in 2006.
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