Latest developments could be smoke and mirrors

16/05/2015 4 min Temporada 1 Episodio 100
Latest developments could be smoke and mirrors

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Three judges have been shot dead in the Sinai just hours Egypt's first democratically elected President, Mohammad Morzi was sentenced to death by a court in Cairo. According to the UK's Independent, police say the judges were attacked while travelling in a car together in the city of al-Arish, Sinai. A fourth person and at least three others were reportedly injured in the assault as well. Morzi's punishment is for his role in a prison breakout during the Arab Spring uprising that toppled his predecessor Hosni Mubarak. We spoke to Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre in Johannesburg, Naeem Jeenah

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