Today's death sentence is Hisham Talaat Mustafa

Egypt: the death sentence, "the killers" Tamim Thursday .. And the opinion of the mufti, "consultant"
Follow-up / Mahmud Gharib



Tamim had a previous relationship with Mustafa


CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) - Hours before the issuance of its final execution of the accused in the killing of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, the two former police officer Mohsen diabetes, a businessman and lawmaker Hisham Talaat Mustafa is known, the Cairo Criminal Court received the opinion of the Mufti, Dr. Ali Gomaa, in the case papers, which the court referred to him late last month.

According to media sources the Egyptian capital Cairo on Wednesday, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, sent a legal opinion to the President of the Court, Counsel to take stock of Iran, in the "sealed envelope made," is not disclosure of its content, which is scheduled to hold another meeting of the court verdict, in the early on Thursday, amid intense security measures.

Is not the opinion of the Mufti of the Republic mandatory for the court, according to judicial sources confirmed to CNN Arabic, pointing out that there is legal provision required the court to explore the opinion of the Mufti in capital cases only, in order to "draw" in his opinion, and therefore this opinion "will not change the resolution, which settled something in the conscience of the court. "

This is also confirmed by the Vice-President of the Court of Cassation, adviser Ahmed Makki, in comments carried by the "sunrise" in the Friday, pointing out that "even if the Mufti may not be the implementation of this provision, it is not necessary to view the source of the provision, and in many cases, violated the judges view the Mufti, and insisted on their sentences. "

The only case which may be the opinion of the Mufti as the binding, according to Mackie, when there is a father or mother convicted of killing their children, when the Mufti issued a fatwa that "does not kill the father of his son," often committed to the court opinion, because it sort of "seeking compassion for the father accused of killing his son. "

The figures indicate that the Mufti, Dr. Juma received a dossier of 480 cases included the death penalty during the period since he took office nearly four years, supported the provision 478 of them, but the cases that were not in favor of execution, adherence to the judiciary as his legal status, have been executed already.

The second defendant's lawyer Hisham Talaat Mustafa, has pre-empted the meeting by virtue of the pronouncement of sentence his client to submit a memorandum to the court, requesting the reopening of the hearing, pointing out that "there is a new impetus, he formulated in the case, is the lack of jurisdiction of the Egyptian judiciary's consideration of the case, the fact that the offense was on the ground, however, an Egyptian, "the site" News "Egypt of the Egyptian Radio and TV Union.

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The Cairo Criminal Court had issued on 21 May, a provision to refer the case to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, to take in the view of the legitimate execution of the accused, the two-day meeting of the 27 trial within five months, during which it had heard a large number of defense witnesses and evidence to the facts of the case, which raised considerable debate in the Arab street.

And that the accused was sentenced to death, even as the collapse occurred and the unconscious of their relatives.

Sources of information on attacks by the residents and relatives of the defendants on some of the journalists who were covering the event, although the court decided in its third, in view of the controversy raised by the case of a broad and large, the prohibition of the dissemination of all media "audio-visual and print."

Recalled that the actress Suzanne Tamim was killed in her apartment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, late July 2008.

The accused has denied the accusations attributed to them, with the payment of their lawyers pleaded not guilty, in an effort to cast doubt on the prosecution evidence, which was based on a unique II ELDEEB counsel for the accused, to the defense case on the first defendant, who had been questioned in a number of evidence-based to the prosecution.

In the case questioned Atef Manaawi, counsel for the accused first, in the clothing that the prosecution said the accused was wearing when he committed the crime, and questioned the weapon used to kill, as well as in the autopsy of the body of the dead, slaughtered by a knife in her apartment in "Marina" in Dubai.

And the Attorney General has already referred to the accused, diabetes, and Mustafa, the Criminal Court, following the conclusion of its investigation in the case, which attributed to the first defendant (diabetes) the charge of "committing a crime outside the country, to kill the victim, Susan Abdel-Sattar Tamim, deliberately with premeditation."


Also attributed to the prosecutor that Hisham Mustafa "took part through incitement, agreement and assistance with the first defendant (diabetes) to kill the victim, Susan Sattar Tamim in revenge, and that helped him running their own data, and the amount of cash required for the planning and execution of the crime."

And all of Mustafa and diabetes have been stabbed to death in previous meetings, the evidence found at the crime scene in Dubai, including the "T" and a knife and a pair of sports shoes, saying it could be "fabricated" or were replaced by the UAE authorities, in must be introduced as evidence against them.