Egyptian TV presenter Sarah Khalifa was among 12 people sentenced to death for their alleged role in a drug trafficking network on Saturday, according to a state-owned Egyptian outlet.

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.