Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death after being convicted of drug trafficking and other offences, state-owned Al-Ahram reported.

Sarah Khalifa, a prominent Egyptian TV producer, is sentenced to death with 11 others in a high-profile drug manufacturing and trafficking case in Cairo.

Sarah Khalifa and 11 others were sentenced to ‘death by hanging on charges of forming an organised criminal gang’, state news reported.