Death sentence in Egypt for Islamic State links

An Egyptian court has sentenced one man to death and 11 others to life imprisonment after convicting them of links to the Islamic State group. Six more were jailed for between 10 to 15 years.

All were said to have either led or joined a terrorist group between 2015 and 2019. In recent years jihadists - some inspired by IS - have carried out a wave of attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and others areas of Egypt.

Mass trials of this kind there are not uncommon there.

In a single case last year, 215 defendants received sentences ranging from 10 years to the death penalty.