Special forces officer-turned-terrorist Hisham Ashmawy is facing military trial over five terror attacks, including one in which he was sentenced to death in absentia in 2017, according to the National. Ashmawy is accused of killing a total of 54 people, and engaging in terrorism against the army, police forces, and civilians. Ashmawy was captured in Derna in 2018 by forces loyal to Libyan National Army chief Gen. Khalifa Haftar, and flown back to Egypt in May.

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