CAIRO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Saturday a death sentence previously issued by a criminal court against a man over an association attempt of a judge and involvement in a terror cell, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.

The court also reduced the death sentence of another convict to a 15-year jail term and reduced the jail terms of another two from 15 to 10 years, upholding the 15-year jail terms against 12 other convicts.

The man is one of 30 defendants involved in joining a terrorist cell in Awsim district of Giza province near the capital Cairo, plotting anti-government activities and assaulting public and private properties.

In February last year, Cairo Criminal Court sentenced in the same case four defendants to death including two fugitives, 14 defendants in custody to 15 years in prison and 12 fugitives to 25 years in jail.

Egypt has been facing a wave of terror activities that killed hundreds of policemen, soldiers and civilians since the popularly-backed military ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 and the later massive security crackdown on his loyalists, mostly from the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.

Most of the terrorist attacks in Egypt over the past few years were claimed by a Sinai-based group affiliated with the regional Islamic State.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian forces have killed hundreds of terrorists and arrested thousands of suspects during the country's anti-terror war declared by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief then, following Morsi's ouster. Enditem

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