Cairo -- Five members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were on Monday sentenced to death for killing 13 people, including 11 policemen, in 2013 after a retrial.The defendants were accused of attacking the Kerdasa police station on August 14, 2013, the same day when Egyptian security forces dispersed two Brotherhood protest sit-in camps in Cairo and Giza, killing hundreds of people. They were also accused of
In February, the court sentenced 183 defendants to death in the same case. Thirty-five of them were sentenced in absentia. Five defendants, from those sent in absentia have asked for a retrial. The Egyptian criminal court have confirmed their death sentences.