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Wednesday, March 8, 2000
Libya Extradites Egyptian Islamist To Face Death

CAIRO, March 7 (AFP) - Libya has extradited to Egypt an Islamist who has already been condemned to death by the courts here, prominent Egyptian lawyer Muntasser Al-Zayyat said Tuesday.

Al-Zayyat, who often represents Islamists, said that Hisham Mohammed Massud, an Egyptian sentenced to death in absentia by a military court in 1993, was extradited by Libya "a few days ago."

Massud was a member of Al-Shawqiyin (an Islamist splinter group, that broke away from Egypt's largest armed Islamic group, the Gamaa Islamiya), now totally disbanded by the Egyptian security forces.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Al-Shawqiyin terrorized the inhabitants of the Fayyum region, around 100 km (80 miles) south of Cairo, with a series of armed robberies to finance their activities.

The verdicts of Egypt's military courts cannot be appealed. Al-Zayyat will be killed.


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