The Cairo Criminal Court sent the case in which four fugitive Al-Qaeda members are accused of spying against Egypt to the mufti to endorse their execution before the final verdict is issued on 8 February.
The accused are Amr Mohamed Aboul Ela Aqida, a 33-year-old mechanic, Mohamed Abdel Halim Hemeida Saleh, a 24-year-old law student, Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed Ibrahim Bayoumi, a 22-year-old accountant, and Dawood al-Assadi, a Kurdish national.
They are charged with forming an illegal group between 2008 and 2013 in the Nozha neighborhood to disrupt the constitution, prevent state institutions from performing their work and assault the personal freedom of citizens.
They are also charged with collaborating with two Al-Qaeda members to carry out terrorist operations in Egypt against the armed forces in Sinai and the American and French embassies and their diplomats, and of furnishing Al-Qaeda with maps of armed forces and extremist groups stationed in Sinai.
The prosecution said investigation revealed that they were also in contact with terrorist elements through the Internet and mobile phones in Pakistan, Turkey, Syria and the West Bank, and demanded the maximum punishment for them.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
