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Article: Mustafa sentenced to death.
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- Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2009
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Byline: Ala Abdel-Ghani
CAIRO: The case of the Egyptian mogul and the Lebanese singer he was accused of murdering reached its climactic ending yesterday. In a case that had captivated Egypt and much of the rest of the Arab world, a court in Cairo found Hisham Talaat Mustafa guilty of the brutal slaying of pop star Suzanne Tamim. It said Mohsen El-Sukkari, a former Egyptian police officer and the man who slit Tamim's throat after having been hired by Mustafa in a contract killing, was also guilty. Both were given the death sentence.
In flowing robes, the presiding judge, flanked by his two aides - there is no jury system in Egypt - read out a terse ...