Court sentences eight to death over violence-related charges from 2013

Topping coverage of Egypt in the international press this morning is news of a Cairo court sentencing eight people to death on Tuesday after finding them guilty of attacking a police station in Helwan in 2013, the Associated Press reports. Fifty others received life sentences over the 2013 attack, which had come after security dispersed two pro-Ikhwan sit-ins. A story about an Egyptian photojournalist who was handed a 15-year sentence “for taking pictures” is also making the rounds.