Defendant in Zeitoun terrorist cell sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced a defendant to ten-year rigorous imprisonment in his re-trial along others in the case widely known in the media as the Zeitoun terrorist cell case.

The defendants are accused of adopting an armed jihadist ideology and committing an armed robbery at a jeweler’s shop in Cairo’s district of Zeitoun, killing its owner and injuring three others.

State security prosecution had accused the defendants of forming a terrorist group called “Regiment of Loyalty and Disavowal” (Sareyet Al-Walaa wa Al-Bara’) that called for revolting against the ruler and changing the ruling regime by force.

They had been charged with monitoring Egypt’s oil pipelines and ship movements in the Suez Canal in order to plan attacks on them.

The defendants, according to the prosecution, sought to disable the constitution and state institutions and assault police personnel and tourists.