Four Islamists sentenced to 25 years in prison for 2005 Cairo bombs

Aug 20, 2007, 14:11 GMT

Cairo - Egypt's Emergency State Security Criminal Court sentenced four Islamists Friday to 25 years imprisonment for the 2005 Cairo bombings.

Tarek Ahmed al-Sayed, Akram Ahmed Fawzy, Sa'id Ibrahim and Ahmed Abddeall were found guilty and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment.

The court also sentenced Mohamed Yousry and Tamer Abdel-Salam to 10 years imprisonment, while Mohamed Fikry Mohamed was sentenced to three years imprisonment and Ahsraf Zain al-Abdedeen and Rami Mohamed Gaber were sentenced to one year in the same case. Tamer Yousry, Sifahm Qamar al-Zaman, Zainab Karem and Salah Ibrahim Mohamed were found not guilty.

The court, meanwhile, postponed the verdict on Reda al-Sayed Ahmed until November 20 as he was being hospitalised awaiting surgery.

On April 7, 2005, Hassan Bashadndi blew himself up in Azhar area killing three tourists and injuring 12 Egyptians and seven other overseas tourists.

Another attack was conducted on April 30 by Ihab Yousri Yassin near the Egyptian museum downtown Cairo, killing four tourists and three Egyptians.

Yassin, who was being sought for the first attack, jumped from the bridge while being pursued and set off the explosive he was carrying.

Hours after Yasin was killed, two fully-veiled young women opened fire on a tour bus on a highway, one of the main arteries through the south of the capital.

The two veiled women were identified by the Interior Ministry as the bomber's sister Negat Yousri and his fiancee Iman Ibrahim Khamees.

After the bus attack, Negat shot and wounded her companion and committed suicide. Khamees died in hospital from her wounds.