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| Egyptian court sentences Badie, 7 others to life in prison | |
| 2014-08-31 | |
| An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said. Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases, part of Cairo’s toughest crackdown - widely criticised by human rights groups - on the country’s oldest and most organised Islamist movement.
Badie was charged with killing at least nine people and inciting violence that injured 21 others in clashes near a mosque in Giza in 2013. Prosecutors charged all the defendants with “murder and attempted murder and inciting violence and possession of arms”, the judicial sources said. Senior Brotherhood leaders sentenced to life in prison on Saturday included Mohamed El Beltagi and Essam El Erian, as well as former members of the Mursi government. Badie and 182 Muslim brotherhood supporters were sentenced to death in a mass trial last June over violence that erupted in Minya governorate which led to the killing of a police officer. A court sentenced Badie to life in prison in July for inciting violence and blocking a major road north of Cairo during protests that followed Mursi’s ouster. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |