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2021-06-15 Africa North
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Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members
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[IsraelTimes] Islamist movement activists convicted in trial relating to 2013 mass killing by security forces at pro-Morsi Islamist sit-in.
An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentence
 ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s for 12 Moslem Brüderbund members, including two big shots of the outlawed Islamist movement, a judicial official said.
The court of cassation also reduced sentences for 31 other Brotherhood members, in the trial relating to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, to life in prison, the official told AFP.
Those condemned to death were convicted of "arming criminal gangs which attacked residents and resisted coppers as well as possessing firearms and ammunition... and bomb-making material," the court said in its ruling.
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Other charges include "killing coppers... resisting authorities... and occupation and destruction of public property," it added.
The rulings are final and cannot be appealed, the judicial source said.
They’re knocking them down like ninepins. Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, head of the political wing of the Moslem Brüderbund, held power for a year before being ousted by the military in 2013.
Egyptian authorities outlawed the Islamist group in 2013 and have overseen a wide-ranging crackdown that has placed in durance vile
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thousands of its supporters.
The original case, dating back to 2013, had over 600 defendants and is locally known as the "Rabaa clearing case."
Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in eastern Cairo was the site of a massive Islamist sit-in calling for the return of Morsi after his ouster.
Security forces raided and killed hundreds of people in a single day in August 2013, a few weeks after Morsi’s overthrow.
In 2018, an Egyptian court sentenced 75 of them to death and the rest to varying jail sentences, including 10 years for Morsi’s son Osama.
Human rights groups have dubbed it the deadliest incident in modern Egyptian history.
Authorities said at the time that Moslem Brüderbund members were armed and the forced dispersal was a vital counter-terrorism measure. 
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