Death Sentence for Brotherhood Chief and 11 Others Confirmed
Death Sentence for Brotherhood Chief and 11 Others Confirmed
A Cairo court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants on Saturday.
Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata also sentenced to death two Islamists who have fled the country, and handed life terms to 23 detained defendants.
The defendants were accused of plotting unrest from their headquarters in a sprawling Cairo protest camp in the months after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
Among those sentenced to life in prison was Mohamed Soltan, a US-Egyptian citizen who is on hunger strike.His father Salah Soltan was among the 11 detainees sentenced to death.
The sentencings can be appealed before the Court of Cassation, which has overturned dozens of other death sentences, including against Badie.
So far Egypt has executed one Islamist sentenced to death after Morsi's overthrow, following his conviction of involvement in the murder of a youth during violent protests in July 2013
At a previous session, he had sought the opinion of the country's mufti, the Islamic legal authority, on the death sentences confirmed on Saturday. The mufti has an advisory role under Egyptian law.
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