General Nabil Farag was
shot dead in September 2013 when police raided the village of Kerdassa near
Cairo where Morsi's supporters had holed up more than two months after his
overthrow.
An Egyptian court on
Saturday sentenced seven men to hang for killing a police general in the unrest
following the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
It was the defendants'
second trial, after having won an appeal against an initial sentencing. They
can appeal one last time.
Farag died from a single
9mm bullet to the chest.
The Cairo court sentenced
five other defendants to 10 years in prison and acquitted another one.
Morsi's ouster, after a
year in power, unleashed a crackdown on his supporters that saw hundreds killed
and thousands detained.
On August 14, 2013, police
killed hundreds of Islamists while dispersing two protest camps in Cairo.
Mobs retaliated by
attacking policemen and Christian properties. More than 10 policemen were
killed in Kerdassa.
Courts have since sentenced
hundreds to death over the violence, but many, including the now-detained
Morsi, have won retrials.
Seven death sentences have
been carried out, including for six men convicted of carrying out attacks for
an Al-Qaeda-inspired militant organisation that later pledged allegiance to the
Islamic State group.
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