CAIRO, May 22 (UPI) -- An Egyptian policeman was sentenced to death Sunday for killing 18 protesters during the revolution, court sources told the official Middle East News Agency.
The news agency said Mohamed Abdel Moneim, a policeman in the Zawya Hamra district of Cairo, is at large and the sentence was imposed in absentia by the North Cairo Criminal Court. He was convicted of firing randomly into a crowd outside a police station.
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The court referred the sentence to a Muslim cleric, the grand mufti, for his opinion before confirming it June 26. But the mufti's opinion is not binding and rarely overturns a court ruling.
Families of the victims tried to break into the courtroom but were kept back by security forces.
