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Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drug trafficking and other charges.<\/p>\n
According to the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, the defendants were members of a criminal gang accused of importing ingredients used to manufacture drugs for sale.<\/p>\n
They were also convicted of possessing illegal firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n
Khalifa, 39, is best known for presenting Mission Impossible, a television programme that dealt with…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drug trafficking and other charges. According to the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, the defendants were members of a criminal gang accused of importing ingredients used to manufacture drugs for sale. They were also convicted of possessing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601496:9490b681fbcfbe2ee369728251ce5d2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6683,6974,6614,4697,415,257,16058,6787,254],"class_list":["post-243711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-death","tag-drugs","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-presenter","tag-sentenced","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601496:9490b681fbcfbe2ee369728251ce5d2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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