In Cairo, a court has sentenced television presenter Sarah Khalifa and eleven others to death for orchestrating a synthetic drug manufacturing and trafficking network — a verdict that collapses the distance between public persona and private conduct in ways that unsettle easy assumptions about visibility and virtue. Khalifa, known for hosting a program about crime and security, now faces the very machinery of justice her show once examined from the outside. The case, involving seized laboratories, hundreds of kilograms of narcotics, and unlicensed weapons, moves through Egypt's capital punishm
Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa sentenced to death in major drug trafficking case
Twelve individuals, including a prominent television presenter, sentenced to death; one young man kidnapped and assaulted in a related case.