The boy's name is Ahmed Mansour Qorany Sharara — the same name as the 16-year-old boy the Egyptian military court meant to sentence. According to CNN, the sentencing was part of a mass trial involving 116 defendants. The court found them all guilty of killing three people and damaging public property during a protest in January 2014. The boy's father appeared on an Egyptian TV show over the weekend, begging the government not to take his son. While the case sounds ridiculous, it's an indication of a larger problem with the Egyptian justice system. Four-year-old Ahmed Mansour Karni has been sentenced to life in prison by an Egyptian court for “committing murder” during the civil unrest in 2014 when he was less than two years old. The child was convicted of four counts of murder, eight of attempted murder, one vandalisation of property and another count of threatening soldiers and police officers. Was this a mistake, or was it a failure by the Egyptian court to impart justice? We look at the staggering flaws in Egypt’s deteriorating judicial system on the Lip News with Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier.
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