Rights groups raise alarm as Egypt executes 17 Cairo has executed 17 men convicted of committing a 2013 attack on a police station after human rights activists say they were tortured to confess. People hold signs reading Stop executions in Egypt in front of the Egyptian Consulate in Istanbul on March 2, 2019, during a demonstration after the recent execution of nine men. - OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images
May 12, 2021
CAIRO Egypt executed 17 prisoners April 26 and 28. They had been convicted of committing 2013 attack in the town of Kerdasa in Giza governorate, where gunmen stormed a police station and killed 11 policemen.
The executions prompted a number of local and international human rights organizations to issue condemnation and calls for an end to the death penalty in Egypt.
Dec 17, 2020, 00:20 AM IST
Chennai: In separate cases, Chennai Air Customs officials seized 4.77 kg gold worth Rs 2.41 crore, foreign currency worth Rs 5.13 lakh and iPhones, cigarettes, health supplements worth Rs 19.15 lakhs and made seven arrests.
Based on intelligence, officials intercepted and frisked four passengers - Mohammed Rabeek of Ramanathapuram, Mohamed Yazeer Khan of Chennai, Mujeebur Rahman and Bilal from Tiruchirapalli, who had arrived from Dubai via Air India Express flight IX 1644. Four gold cut bits (198 grams), four gold chains, six gold paste packets were recovered from their jeans.
iPhone 12 units, cigarettes, health supplements valued at Rs 9.8 lakh were also recovered from their handbags and seized. Eight bundles of gold paste weighing 1.928 kg were recovered from the rectum of Mujeebur and Bilal, which yielded 1.72 kg gold on extraction. Mujeebur, Bilal and Mohamed Rabeek were arrested.
Over 4 kg gold seized at Chennai airport, seven arrested
Following a personal search, four gold cut bits (198 gm), four gold chains and six gold paste packets were recovered from their jeans.
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CHENNAI: Customs personnel have arrested seven persons and foiled a bid to smuggle 4.77 kg gold worth Rs 2.41 crore at the Chennai Airport. Based on a tip-off, Mohammed Rabeek (25) of Ramanathapuram, Mohamed Yazeer Khan (23) of Chennai, Mujeebur Rahman (34) and Bilal (33) both from Tiruchy, who arrived from Dubai were intercepted.
Following a personal search, four gold cut bits (198 gm), four gold chains and six gold paste packets were recovered from their jeans.