Amy Goodman
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Egypt’s Power Struggle Intensifies with Killing of Prosecutor Behind Mass Jailings of Islamists
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June 30, 2015
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12:15Now PlayingEgypt’s public prosecutor has been killed in a bomb attack in Cairo. Hisham Barakat died in hospital Monday after a remote bomb detonated next to his car outside his home as he drove to work. Eight others were also hurt in the blast. Barakat became a target of militants after he sent thousands of Islamists to trial following the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. We speak with Cairobased Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
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