Court In Egypt Sentenced 4 Year Old To Life In Prison For Murder

Many people have reacted angrily
after a court sentenced a 4-year-old
boy to life in prison for murder.

A court in western Cairo this week
sentenced a four-year-old boy to
life in prison on various heinous
charges, including murder.
According to the freethought project, the boy was “convicted of murder, inciting riots, destruction of Government property and threatening cops.

Although the boy was less than two
years old during the civil unrest in
2014, he was convicted in absentia
due to a clerical error and the
court’s incompetence.

“Born in September 2012, Ahmed
Mansour Karni was swept up in
an indictment listing his name
along with 115 other defendants
accused of participating in riots
and demonstrations on January 3,
2014. Despite that fact that Ahmed
was only a year and a half old at
the time, he was reportedly
charged with four counts of
murder, eight counts of attempted
murder, vandalizing property
belonging to the Egyptian Health
Administration in his home
province of el-Fayoum, threatening soldiers and Police officers, and damaging vehicles belonging to security forces. Convicted in absentia, Ahmed was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.”

One defense attorney added that he
had presented the child’s birth
certificate to the court, however

“It appeared that the court did not
transfer the material.”
Lawyer Faisal a-Sayd charged that
the presiding judge had not
reviewed the case.

“The child Ahmed Man Karni’s birth certificate was presented after state security forces added his name to the list of accused, but then the case was transferred to the military court
and the child was sentenced in
absentia in an ensuing court hearing,” said the defence attorney.

“This proves that the judge did
not read the case,” he added.

Another Egyptian lawyer
Mohammed Abu Hurira issued a
fiery response, writing: “On the eve
of injustice and madness in Egypt,
a four-year-old child was sentenced
to life imprisonment. He is accused
of disturbance, damage to property
and murder. The Egyptian scales of
justice are not reversible. There is
no justice in Egypt. No reason.
Logic committed suicide a while
ago.

Egypt went crazy. Egypt is
ruled by a bunch of lunatics.”
The sentencing also caused a
firestorm on social media
networks, with users blasting the
Egyptian legal system and
government of corruption and
injustice. A blogger and wife of
Egyptian human rights activist
Nibin Melek wrote in a post that
the sentencing “was a blind
decision.”

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