Latest NEWS
- Aswat Masriya, the last word
- Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on March 15, 2017
- Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on March 14, 2017
- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to be released: lawyer
- Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on March 13, 2017
- Egypt's capital set to grow by half a million in 2017
- Egypt's wheat reserves to double with start of harvest -supply min
- Roundup of Egypt's press headlines on March 12, 2017
Egypt court sentences four men to hang for killing priest
Coptic Orthodox Christians carry the coffins of men who died in clashes between Muslims and Christians in El Khusus north of the Egyptian capital, during their funeral at the main cathedral in Cairo April 7, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency MENA reported.
The four were found guilty of killing Reverend Dauoud Peter Boules during a robbery that was aided by his maid, MENA said. The men beat and stabbed the priest to death and stole his money and some belongings.
There did not appear to be a political or religious motive behind the crime, a security source told Reuters. One of the four convicted is Christian, the source said.
One of the four was tried in absentia, while a fifth man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assisting in the crime, MENA said.
Death penalties in Egypt are rarely carried out. (Reporting by Aly Abdelaty and Maggie Fick; Writing by Maggie Fick; Editing by Patrick Werr and Michael Roddy)
