Egyptian tv presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 different radical person been sentenced to decease by hanging aft being convicted of drugs charges.
According to state-owned al-Akhram newspaper, they were portion of a transgression pack which imported ingredients utilized to marque drugs with the intent of selling them.
They besides had amerciable firearms and munitions.
Khalifa, 39, is champion known for her TV programme Mission Impossible which dealt with transgression issues. She has denied the charges.
The verdict - which tin beryllium appealed against - was archetypal announced past month.
However, it was lone confirmed a period aboriginal aft the tribunal obtained a spiritual sentiment from the expansive mufti of Egypt - a ineligible request successful decease condemnation cases.
During the trial, the tribunal heard that authorities had seized much than 750kg (1,653lbs) of narcotics and the imported earthy materials to marque them.
Twenty witnesses had fixed statements to the prosecutors, al-Akhram said, successful summation to physics grounds that included conversations and video clips.
According to the state-run Akhbar al-Youm newspaper, erstwhile asked by the justice astir her alleged relation during a tribunal quality past September, Khalifa said she had ne'er seen immoderate drugs until she was photographed with them wrong the anti-narcotics authorization offices.
According to a 2025 Amnesty International report, there were 492 decease sentences successful the people of the year, 23 of whom were executed, external.
The defendants were recovered blameworthy of cause trafficking and rape, "crimes that did not magnitude to 'intentional killing' to which the usage of the decease punishment indispensable beryllium restricted nether planetary instrumentality and standards", the study said.
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