Eleven people were sentenced to death and 11 others to life and one defendant was acquitted on Wednesday in the case involving the murder of a senior Giza police officer last September.
Giza Criminal Court had in June referred 12 defendants to the grand mufti for a death sentence approval. Death sentences in Egypt require referrals to the mufti as a judicial measure, pending his approval.
Former Assistant Giza Security Chief, Nabil Farrag, was shot dead in September 2013 while police and army forces were invading the district of Kerdasa, previously a stronghold for Islamist groups who sympathize with ousted president Mohamed Morsy.
The forces were seeking to clear the district of terrorist activity and search for suspects involved in the murder of 16 police officers who worked at the local police department one month earlier.
