CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian presidency upheld the death penalty for 14 people convicted of attacking police in North Sinai in 2011, signalling the army-backed authorities' determination to press a campaign against Islamist militants.
The condemned men, all from the Tawheed wal Jihad ("Monotheism and Holy War") group, were sentenced in 2012 to hang for killing three police officers, an army officer and a civilian in attacks on a police station and a bank in the town of el-Arish in 2011.
