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| Egypt sentences 22 Brotherhood members to jail |
| 2014-05-01 |
| [Iran Press TV] A court in Egypt sentences 22 Moslem Brüderbund members to one year in jail each. The court sentenced Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammed Badie and 21 others to one year in jail each for what it calls insulting the judiciary. The Brotherhood members are co-defendants of ousted President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... The judge issued the verdicts against the Brotherhood members on Wednesday, after the defendants inside the caged dock were accused of turning their backs on him. The ruling was made in a case that concerns an alleged prison escape by the defendants. Morsi and senior Brotherhood member Mohammed el-Beltagy were spared the one-year jail penalty. This is one of the three trials that Morsi is facing. The deposed Egyptian leader faces espionage charges and incitement over the killing of protesters in the two other cases. On Monday, another Egyptian court handed down death sentences to Badie and 682 supporters of the group. The same court also reversed the death sentences of 492 out of the 529 people it had passed in March. The military-installed prosecutors changed most of the death penalties to life in prison sentences. Badie has also said mass death sentences against him and other members of the group will result in the downfall of military-backed authorities. |
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