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Court condemns lovejacker for life: <\/b>The Alexandria Criminal Court handed yesterday Seif El Din Moustafa, the man who hijacked and diverted a domestic EgyptAir plane to Cyprus in 2016, a life sentence for charges including \u201cintimidation and threats to seize a plane and abduct its passengers for a terrorist purpose,\u201d reports Reuters<\/a>. Moustafa has a right to appeal the sentence within 60 days. He was extradited to Egypt last year<\/a> after having been held in custody in Cyprus for over two years. His story made headlines in March 2016, when he used a fake explosives belt to abduct an Alexandria-Cairo flight with 55 passengers on board. He claimed at the time he wanted to send a message to his former Cypriot wife, and also called for the release of female detained in Egyptian prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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