CAIRO: Lieutenant Yassin Salah el-Din, 24, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday by Cairo Criminal Court for killing activist Shaimaa al-Sabbagh during the commemoration of the fourth anniversary if the January 25 Revolution earlier this year.
Salah el-Din, a Central Security Forces officer, fired birdshot at Sabbagh at Talaat Harb Square in Cairo from a close range, leading to her death.