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5 Bröderbünd members sentenced to death in Egypt
2015-05-05
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 being on the grassy knoll kidnapping the Lindbergh baby possessing unlicensed weapons among other charges.

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.
Posted by:Steve White

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