Egypt sentence to four years old for life was a 'mistake'

[Saho]

BEIRUT: Four-year-old Ahmed Mansour Karni was convicted in absentia by Egyptian military court on charges of murder, disturbing peace and damaging state property, Egyptian media reported.

The military last week found Karni guilty of committing murder at the age of 2 and sentenced him to life in prison.

According to family’s lawyer, Mahmoud Hamdi, the prosecution confused Karni’s name with that of his father, Ahmed Mansour Karni Sharara, who was among 116 defendants suspected of violence during a Muslim Brotherhood protest in January 2014 in the Fayoum province. Sharara was interrogated at the time and released.

Hamdi said they presented the court and the prosecution with the boy’s birth certificate in order to change his name but the court ignored the document, which indicates that the judge issued the sentence without reading the case files.

Nasser Amin, lawyer and president of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights, told Shorouk News that this incident represents “the flaws in the justice institution that are manifested in cases of severe neglect linked to the investigation process upon which the courts issue their rulings.”

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Egypt: Officials admit mistake over toddler sentence - CNN.com

 

[Hack-Hook]

this part is just fantastic

In 2014, more than 1,000 people were sentenced to death in two cases involving the deaths of police officers during protests. The sentences were later reduced to life sentences for most of the defendants.

"Most cases involving big events are based on investigations and no tangible evidence. We've seen cases where defendants were either deceased years before the incident or in prison when it happened," said Abu Kaf, the lawyer.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Muslims are still living in the dark ages and they have no intention to come out of it.

 

[azzo]

Typical egyptian dictatorship. sisawis are destroying the country.