Egypt's State Security Emergency court criminal ratified on Monday 14 members of a militant Islamist group to death by hanging and four to life imprisonment over attacks on army and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula last year.
The men, who belonged to a militant group called Tawheed and Jihad, were charged by the prosecutor with killing three police officers, an army officer and a civilian in attacks carried out in June and July, 2011, one of which targeted a police station in the Northern Sinai city of Arish.
Eight of the 14 death sentences, which were meted out on 14 August, were ordered in absentia, court sources said.
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