[REUTERS] An Egyptian court seeks the death penalty for the Moslem Brüderbund's top leader Mohammed Badie and 13 other members of the group for inciting chaos and planning attacks on police and army institutions, judicial sources said on Monday.The court formally referred the case to the Grand Mufti, the country's highest Islamic legal official, which is the first step towards imposing a death sentence.
Egyptian law requires any capital sentence to be referred to the Mufti for an religious opinion before any execution can take place, although the Mufti's ruling is not binding. Once the court issues a final verdict, set for April 11, the defendants can appeal it.
The 14 include the Brotherhood's Salah Soltan, a preacher, and Saad al-Hosseiny, ex-governor of Kafr el-Sheikh province.