CAIRO, June 18, 2018 (MENA) - The investigations of Egypt's supreme state security prosecution revealed that the 268 defendants accused of commanding and joining two terrorist groups named Hasm and Lewaa Al Thawra used alias names to evade security pursuit. The members of the extremist groups plotted for terrorist attacks aiming at undermining the Egyptian state and its institutions. The investigations unveiled also that the perpetrators used applications of encrypted electronic conversations on their cell phones to evade security pursuit. They received training on monitoring facilities to be targeted with terrorist assaults. Egypt's Prosecutor General Nabil Ahmed Sadeq ordered members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to be referred to military court over commanding and joining Hasm and Lewaa Al Thawra terrorist groups.
