In Egypt, a court upheld death sentences for nine people convicted of the murder of a top prosecutor in a car bombing three years ago.<br />''  <br />''Judicial source said in Cairo yesterday that Hisham Barakat was killed in June 2015 when a bomb struck his convoy in Cairo after jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary to avenge a crackdown on Islamists.<br />''<br />''<br />''Two years later an Egyptian criminal court sentenced 28 people to death for their involvement in his murder, with only 15 defendants present in court for the verdict at the time.<br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Egypt's court of cassation confirmed the death sentence for nine of the 15, while reducing the sentences of the six others to life imprisonment.</span><br />