Giza Criminal Court will resume on Tuesday, the retrial number of defendants, who were sentenced in absentia over accusations of killing the local Shiite leader Hassan Shehata and three others in the case publicly known as the "Shiite Strife," Al-Bawaba News reported. The court sentenced 23 defendants to 14 years in prison and dropped all charges against eight others, over accusations of killing four Egyptian Shiites and attempted murder against 13 others in a mob attack in a village near Cairo. In June 2013, an anti-Shiite crowd besieged a house where a group of Shiite worshipers led by Shehata had gathered for a religious ceremony. The victims were tagged in the street and brutally beaten to death, as the attackers accused them of spreading Shiite beliefs in Egypt.