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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a leader from the banned Muslim Brotherhood party to life imprisonment over his role in a border and prison infiltration case, after receiving a life sentence last year for different charges. Mahmoud Ezzat was convicted by a Cairo court on Sunday for “conspiring with” the Gaza Strip-based Hamas movement, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia, as well as other Muslim Brotherhood officials in helping to infiltrate Egypt from Gaza in 2011 and storm prisons. Ezzat had “provided fake Egyptian IDs, money, cars and motorcycles to the perpetrators, who were trained …