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| Egypt issues life sentence for Muslim Brotherhood chief |
| 2017-05-09 |
| [Al Jazeera] An Egyptian court has sentenced the Moslem Brüderbund's supreme guide Mohammed Badie and two prominent leaders of the group to life in prison for "planning violent attacks", judicial officials and a lawyer said. Badie and 37 others connected to the "Rabaa operations room" case are accused of conspiring to stir unrest during protests that followed the July 2013 military-led ouster of Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood. The Public Prosecutor's Office charged the accused with "preparing an operations room to confront the state and create chaos in the country following the dismantling of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in" and "planning to burn public property and churches". On August 14, 2013, security forces stormed a large protest gathering at Rabaa in the capital Cairo and allegedly bumped off hundreds of unarmed demonstrators. The Giza Criminal Court sentenced Badie to a life term along with Mahmoud Ghozlan, a Brotherhood front man, and Hossam Abubakr, a member of its guidance bureau, the officials and defence lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said. US-Egyptian citizen Mohammed Sultan, his father Salah Sultan, and Ahmed Aref, another front man for the group, were among other defendants sentenced to serve five years behind bars. Egyptian authorities deported Mohammed Sultan to the United States in May 2015, while his father remains in jug. Other sentencees include two journalists from the Rassd news network, Abdullah al-Fakharany and Samy Mostafa, and a presenter of the Islamist Amgad channel, Mosaad al-Barbary. |
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