Egypt Reduces Death Sentence of Brotherhood Leader to Life in Prison

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An Egyptian court reduced the death sentence of general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said.

Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases.
Badie was charged with killing at least nine people and inciting violence that injured 21 others in clashes near a mosque in Giza in 2013.

The judge, Mohamed Nagi Shehata, also sentenced six other defendants to death in absentia.

Moreover, the then-armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi toppled Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi in July of 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

Mursi, who was elected in 2012, is on trial on a variety of charges including inciting violence and conspiring with a foreign power, and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team