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1st LD: Egypt refers 292 to military trial over Sinai terrorism

Xinhua, November 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Egypt referred Sunday 292 suspect terrorists to military trial over charges of carrying out terror activities in restive Sinai Peninsula and planning to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, official MENA news agency reported.

According to the report, the defendants belong to the so-called "Sinai State," a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) militant group, which claimed responsibility for most of the anti-government terrorist attacks over the past a few years.

Egypt has been facing a rising wave of terrorist operation and bomb attacks, mostly in North Sinai province, since the military removed former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood group. Endit