Cairo (Earth Times) - Egypt's highest appeals court is expected to rule Thursday on a real-estate tycoon and former lawmaker's appeal against his death sentence for killing a Lebanese pop singer. A Cairo criminal court in May 2009 sentenced senior ruling-party member Hisham Talaat Mostafa, 50, and former State Security officer Mohsen al-Sokari, 40, to death for the July 2008 murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai.
The court found that Mostafa had paid al-Sokari the equivalent of 2 million dollars to kill his former mistress.
The legal question before the panel of judges at Egypt's highest appeals court Thursday is whether there were procedural errors in the trial that led to Mostafa and al-Sokari's conviction.
The court has a record of granting retrials, judicial observers say.
The case has enthralled the regional media since Tamim was found with her throat slit in her luxury Dubai apartment on July 28, 2008 - particularly after Mostafa, a former member of Egypt's upper house of parliament, was named in connection with the case.
The court found that Mostafa had paid al-Sokari the equivalent of 2 million dollars to kill his former mistress.
The legal question before the panel of judges at Egypt's highest appeals court Thursday is whether there were procedural errors in the trial that led to Mostafa and al-Sokari's conviction.
The court has a record of granting retrials, judicial observers say.
The case has enthralled the regional media since Tamim was found with her throat slit in her luxury Dubai apartment on July 28, 2008 - particularly after Mostafa, a former member of Egypt's upper house of parliament, was named in connection with the case.
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