Giza criminal court, headed by Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata, sentenced 183 people to death Monday for killing 11 police officers in the case publicly knwon as the "Kerdasa Massacre" in 2013. On December 2, 2014, the court referred all the defendants' sentences to Egypt's Grand Mufti Shawki Allam to consider the death penalties, of which all 183 were approved. After security forces dispersed the Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda sit-ins on 14 August 2013, Muslim Brotherhood supporters and Bedouin militants stormed the Kerdasa police station, killing 11 officers. On 19 September 2013, security forces raided the village to arrest the perpetrators of the police station attack. Giza's deputy security chief, Major General Nabil Farrag was killed during the raid. Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred the defendants to a trial for storming the Kerdasa police station, killing 11 police officers and mutilating their bodies, attempting to murder 10 other police station's officers, and burning a number of police vehicles. Two defendants were cleared of all charges Monday, and one was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
