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Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, 65 others, to life in prison
 [PRESSTV] An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced the Supreme Guide of the now-outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and 65 others members of the movement to life in prison over charges of incitement to murder and violence during demonstrations five years ago.On Sunday, 75-year-old Badie was convicted to life in prison over allegedly inciting members of the banned movement to attack Maghagha cop shoppe in the southern Egyptian province of Minya and killing a police officer in August 2013. The attack came shortly after Egyptian security forces launched violent attacks on protest camps at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in the capital, Cairo, and Nahda Square in Giza, the third largest city in Egypt. Human Rights Watch said at the time more than 815 people had been killed only at Rabaa Square, whereas the Egyptian Health Ministry put the corpse count at 638. The rights organization later said that the massacre had been one of the world’s largest in a single day in recent history. An absolute majority of those killed were followers of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, who was ousted on July 3 the same year in a military coup led by then head of the armed forces and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. According to defense lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsood, around 700 people were tried again in this case. He said that 65 other members of the Brotherhood had also been sentenced to life in prison on Sunday, adding that 288 were acquitted, six have died since the first trial and the rest were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison.
The court had previously sentenced Badie to death 2014 in this case, but an appeals hearing had overturned the verdict and ordered a retrial. Another 81 defendants were sentenced to between 10-15 years in prison and dozens of others were handed shorter jail terms. The court acquitted 288 other defendants in the same case. Last month, Badie and other senior Brotherhood leaders were sentenced to life in prison over similar charges in a separate case. In July, a court referred the cases of Badie and other Brotherhood leaders in a separate case to Egypt’s top Moslem religious authority, the Mufti, for his opinion on whether they should be sentenced to death. Posted by: Fred 2018-09-24 |
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