Cairo appeal court has accepted defence arguments challenging sentences meted out against 22 people in the murder case of police general Nabil Farrag.
Farrag was killed in Kerdasa, Giza in September 2013 by pro-ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi protesters.
A Giza criminal court had ruled in August 2014 for the death penalty for 12 defendants and life-in-jail for ten others in his murder case.
Farrag was killed and nine other police officers and soldiers were injured during a security raid on the Islamist hotbed town in Giza which aimed to apprehend individuals wanted for a previous violent attack on Kerdasa police station in August 2013 in the aftermath of the dispersal of Islamist sit-ins in Cairo, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
