Egypt’s Court of Cassation rejected on Thursday appeals submitted by 46 defendants over their placement on the terror list for their involvement in the assassination of former Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat in June 2015.
The court decision called for seizing the defendants’ funds, canceling their passports, putting their names on the watch list and freezing of their funds.
Barakat was killed in 2015 when a bomb targeted his motorcade as it was passing through Cairo. Several guards and civilians were killed in the attack.
Cairo's Criminal Court had issued a decision to blacklist 56 defendants as terrorist based on a memorandum issued by the Attorney General.
Forty-six have appealed the ruling.
The terror list includes a number of leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
In July 2017, the Cairo Criminal Court had issued sentences against 66 suspects in the case. Twenty-eight were given the death penalty, 15 were ordered to serve 25 years in jail, while the rest were sentenced to 15 years in maximum security prison.
According to investigations, the defendants belong to Muslim Brotherhood group, which is classified as a terrorist organization. They are accused of contacting fugitives leaders of the group abroad to prepare and target official Egyptian figures and attempting to create chaos and instability in the country to overthrow of the state.
