Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Egypt’s Power Struggle Intensifies with Killing of Prosecutor Behind Mass Jailings of Islamists

Democracy Now!

"Egypt’s public prosecutor has been killed in a bomb attack in Cairo. Hisham Barakat died in hospital Monday after a remote bomb detonated next to his car outside his home as he drove to work. Eight others were also hurt in the blast. Barakat became a target of militants after he sent thousands of Islamists to trial following the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. We speak with Cairo-based Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous...."

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