By Sumayya
Egyptian media personality Sarah Khalifa and 11 alternate individuals have been condemned to execution by hanging following being convicted of narcotics offenses.
According to public-owned al-Ahram gazette, they constituted segment of an unlawful syndicate which brought components deployed to construct narcotics with the objective of marketing them.
They likewise possessed unauthorized weapons and ammunition.
Khalifa, 39, is most renowned for her television project Mission Impossible which focused on offense matters. She has refuted the allegations.
Nine associate suspects have been condemned to lifelong incarceration, while seven have been exonerated.
Khalifa’s counsel expressed she would challenge the execution decree.
The ruling was initially declared last month.
However, it was merely verified a month subsequently after the tribunal secured a theological ruling from the grand mufti of Egypt – a statutory mandate in execution decree matters.
Throughout the litigation, the tribunal heard that administrators had confiscated exceeding 750kg (1,653lbs) of narcotics and the brought raw substances to construct them.
Twenty onlookers had delivered statements to the indictors, al-Ahram expressed, in supplement to electronic verification that incorporated dialogues and footage clips.
According to the public-operated Akhbar al-Yom gazette, when questioned by the magistrate regarding her purported function during a tribunal manifestation last September, Khalifa expressed she had never observed any narcotics until she was captured with them inside the anti-narcotics management offices.
According to a 2025 Amnesty International paper, there existed 492 execution decrees in the sequence of the annual cycle, 23 of which were executed.
The suspects were tracked blameworthy of narcotics smuggling and assault, “offenses that did not equate to ‘deliberate homicide’ to which the deployment of the execution penalty must be confined beneath international legislation and criteria”, the paper expressed.
