10 Seamen Sentenced to Hang in Egypt
A criminal court Wednesday sentenced 10 foreign seamen to hang for trying to smuggle $300 million worth of narcotics into Egypt.
The case dates to July, 1988, when police found 6.2 tons of heroin, opium and hashish hidden aboard the freighter Reev Star after it docked at Suez, on the southern end of the Suez Canal. The ship was on a voyage from Bangladesh.
The seamen were sentenced to death in 1989. A second trial was held after an appeal, and the men--four Sudanese, two Bangladeshis, a Somali, an Indian, a Tanzanian and a Kenyan--were again convicted.
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