- Popular TV presenter Sarah Khalifa — who has 2.5 million Instagram followers and runs a beauty clinic — was among 12 people sentenced to death over alleged involvement in a drug trafficking network.
- A video circulating on social media showed her weeping and pleading for "mercy and humanity," denying wrongdoing; CNN could not independently verify the footage.
- Authorities say about 750 kg of synthetic narcotics were seized and the case comes amid a wider spike in death sentences in Egypt this year, per Amnesty International.
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