An Egyptian TV presenter is among 12 people sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drug-related charges. <\/p>\n
Egyptian media reported Sarah Khalifa and 11 others were found to be part of a criminal group that imported raw materials used to manufacture drugs for sale. <\/p>\n
The group was also found to be in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition. <\/p>\n
Khalifa, 39, was best known for presenting television programme Mission Impossible, which focused on security and crime issues.<\/p>\n
She also owned a cosmetic surgery clinic and a production company that specialised in organising events. <\/p>\n
Khalifa denied the charges against her and her lawyer said she would appeal the death sentence. <\/p>\n
The verdict was initially announced last month but was confirmed this week after the court obtained an opinion from Egypt’s grand mufti \u2014 a legal requirement before a death sentence could be finalised.<\/p>\n
During the trial, the court heard authorities had seized more than 750kg of narcotics, alongside raw materials intended for drug production.<\/p>\n
Khalifa reportedly told the court last September she had never seen the drugs she was accused of possessing until she was photographed with them inside anti-narcotics authority offices. <\/p>\n
Nine other defendants in the case were sentenced to life imprisonment in the case, while a further seven were acquitted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Egyptian TV presenter is among 12 people sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drug-related…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-592844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}