Egyptian TV presenter among 12 sentenced to death on drug charges
France 24 reports that an Egyptian court sentenced a television presenter and 11 others to death in a drug-related case.
An Egyptian court has sentenced a television presenter and 11 other people to death on drug charges, according to France 24.
The ruling involves 12 people in total, but the available report does not identify the presenter or the court that issued the sentences.
It also does not specify the alleged offences, when the sentencing took place, or whether the ruling can be appealed or reviewed.
The sentences were reported in France 24’s “Eye on Africa” programme, alongside coverage of a South African corruption case and the opening of a Pan-African Architecture Biennale in Kenya.
The court’s sentencing claim has not been independently established in the available material, and the report does not state that any of those sentenced has been executed.
