Egyptian Military's Identity Mistake

[Keel M.]

CAIRO — As alibis go, this one would seem to be airtight: Your honor, my client was only a year old at the time of the crime.

But it did not stop an Egyptian military court from convicting the accused, a boy now 3 ½, of killing three people, carrying guns and firebombs, blocking a road with burning tires, and trying to damage government buildings — and sentencing him to life in prison.

The verdict came last week in a mass trial of 107 people suspected of being members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and the charges stemmed from the protests, street clashes and police crackdowns in Egypt after the military overthrow of the elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. Hundreds of people were killed and thousands were jailed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/world/middleeast/egypt-toddler-life-sentence.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[Knight Of Shadows]

huh ? is this for real