Cairo Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged tougher laws against militants and suggested fast track executions at the funeral today of the state prosecutor assassinated in a car bombing. Hisham Barakat died in hospital after a car bomb tore through his convoy in Cairo y
Cairo
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pledged tougher laws against militants and suggested fast track executions at the funeral today of the state prosecutor assassinated in a car bombing.
Hisham Barakat died in hospital after a car bomb tore through his convoy in Cairo yesterday morning, the most senior official killed by Islamist insurgents who have bedevilled the country.
Thousands of people, mostly Islamists but also including secular dissidents, have been jailed and hundreds sentenced to death. Most of those sentenced to death are appealing the verdicts, a lengthy and convoluted process, but Sisi suggested it would be fast tracked.
"If there is a death sentence, a death sentence will be implemented," Sisi said. "The law! The law!
"We're not going to wait five or 10 years to try the people killing us," Sisi said.
"The arm of justice is chained by the law. We're not going to wait for this. We're going to amend the law to allow us to implement justice as soon as possible," Sisi said in a televised speech surrounded by Barakat's mourning relatives.
