An Egyptian courtroom sentenced a well known tv presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drug case, official media reported on Saturday.
The presenter, Sarah (*12*), 39, is finest identified for her programme Mission Impossible, which handled points regarding safety and crime.
The state-linked Al-Ahram newspaper mentioned a Cairo courtroom sentenced “Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death by hanging on charges of forming an organised criminal gang specialising in procuring materials used in manufacturing narcotics, with the intent to traffic them, and possessing and carrying unlicensed firearms and ammunition”.
The verdict got here after the courtroom consulted the Grand Mufti of Egypt for his non secular opinion, a process required by Egyptian legislation in capital circumstances.
The verdict is topic to attraction.
(*12*) additionally owns a beauty surgical procedure clinic and a manufacturing firm that specialises in organising events and occasions.
According to the state-run Akhbar el-Yom newspaper, the defendants had been charged with “manufacturing synthetic drugs with the intent to traffic them, by importing the materials used in manufacturing from abroad”.
Al-Ahram reported that authorities seized greater than 750kg of narcotics and uncooked supplies, and located two residences used as laboratories in addition to unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
The courtroom additionally sentenced (*12*) and others to 5 years in jail over a separate case involving the kidnapping and assault of a younger man.
Egypt applies the death penalty for premeditated homicide, terrorism, some rape offences and drug trafficking.
According to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, 541 death sentences had been issued in Egypt in 2025.