The Mansoura Criminal Court has decided to hand over the documents of the man accused of killing student Naira Ashraf in front of Mansoura University in the Nile Delta, north of Cairo, to the country’s Mufti to give a legal opinion on his execution. , a judicial spokesman confirmed to AFP.
It took the court no more than two days to issue a verdict, as the first court session began on Sunday.
And last week, Egypt’s public prosecutor, Hamada El-Sawi, brought the perpetrator before a criminal court for accusing him of “deliberately killing Naira Ashraf’s victim … and taking her by surprise with a knife, with which he stabbed her several times.” and stabbed her to death with the intention of taking her life.” According to the prosecutor’s office, the young man “confessed to the murder of the victim.”
The case sparked controversy and anger among Egyptians on social media, and the spread of the case further increased with a similar crime in Jordan against a student named Iman Rashid who was killed by a young man, prompting many Jordanians and Egyptians to demand the death penalty for two defendants in two countries.
Source: El Nashra