Four year old sentenced to life in prison for murder in Egypt
Egyptian courts have been cracking down on dissenters since the coup in 2013. An Egyptian court has sentenced a four-year-old boy to life in prison for committing murder when he was aged just one.
Ahmed Mansour Karmi was not in court on Tuesday when he was convicted of four counts of murder, eight of attempted murder, one vandalisation of property and another count of threatening soldiers and police officers - all before his second birthday.
Ahmed was one of 115 defendants who were all handed life sentences at the same time at the court in western Cairo for crimes allegedly committed in early 2014.
His defence attorney, Faisal al-Sayd, told the Jerusalem Post the child’s name had been added to the list by mistake but the court did not pass Ahmed’s birth certificate on to t...