Egypt will waste no time to implement justice: President Sisi
The Egyptian government vows to take tough measures for the quick implementation of justice following the assassination of the top prosecutor in the country.
"The arm of justice is chained by the law. We're not going to wait for this. We're going to amend the law to allow us to implement justice as soon as possible," said President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in a televised speech on Tuesday at the funeral of the state prosecutor, Hisham Barakat.
The president said his administration would implement any verdict handed down.
"If there is a death sentence, a death sentence will be implemented," Sisi said.
Barakat succumbed to his wounds in the hospital after a car bomb hit his convoy in the capital, Cairo, on Monday.
The attack came after an ISIL-affiliated terrorist group based in the Sinai Peninsula called for deadly attacks on the Egyptian judiciary.
Security has deteriorated across Sinai since Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was toppled in a military coup in July 2013.
Last month, gunmen shot dead at least two judges and a prosecutor in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish.
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