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Egypt sentences 20 to death in police killings

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    FILE -- In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Egyptian security forces carry the lifeless body of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag, center, who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces in the town of Kerdasa, Egypt. An Egyptian court on Monday, April 24, 2017 upheld death sentences against 20 suspected Islamists convicted of murder in the deaths of 15 people, including 11 police, during the attack in 2013. The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court awaits approval by the grand mufti, the country's highest Islamic authority, and a final verdict will be delivered on June 2. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abdel Fattah, El Shorouk Newspaper, File) EGYPT OUT (The Associated Press)

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    FILE -- In this Sept. 26, 2013 file photo, Egyptian security forces detain a man in Giza's Kerdasa district, south of Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian court on Monday, April 24, 2017 upheld death sentences against 20 suspected Islamists convicted of murder in the deaths of 15 people, including 11 police, during a 2013 attack in Kerdasa. The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court awaits approval by the grand mufti, the country's highest Islamic authority, and a final verdict will be delivered on June 2. .(AP Photo/Eman Helal, File) (The Associated Press)

CAIRO – An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences against 20 suspected Islamists convicted of murder in the deaths of 15 people, including 11 police, during an attack on a police station in 2013.

The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court awaits approval by the grand mufti, the country's highest Islamic authority, and a final verdict will be delivered on June 2.

The defendants are alleged to have attacked a police station in Kerdasa, close to the pyramids at Giza, in the aftermath of the military's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The government later seized on the attack to justify a wide-scale crackdown on Morsi's supporters and other dissidents.

A lower court had sentenced 149 people to death in 2015. Final verdicts for the rest will be issued on June 2.