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Egypt Sentences Brotherhood Leader to Life Imprisonment

Egypt Sentences Brotherhood Leader to Life Imprisonment
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An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent Brotherhood figures to life in prison on Saturday over an attack on a police station in 2013, judicial sources said, part of a sustained crackdown on the group.

 

Egypt Sentences Brotherhood Leader to Life Imprisonment

 

The assault was part of a wave of violence that rocked the country after the army removed elected president Mohamed Mursi from power following mass protests against his rule in June 2013.

Senior Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagy and cleric Safwat Hegazy were also sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday.

Furthermore, eighty-eight co-defendants were handed life terms, which in Egypt is 25 years in jail. Only 18 of them were in court with Badie, however, and the rest were sentenced in absentia.

Twenty-eight others received 10 years in prison and 71 were acquitted.

The attack on the police station came two days after a bloody crackdown by security forces in Cairo on supporters of Morsi that left hundreds dead in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.

In June an Egyptian court upheld death sentences against Morsi and Badie for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the country's 2011 uprising.

He had already been sentenced to death in April, and had been handed life sentences in five other cases.

Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was ousted in 2013 by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after mass street protests against his year of rule.

An ensuing police crackdown targeting his supporters left hundreds dead and thousands jailed.

Hundreds more had been sentenced to death after speedy trials criticized by the United Nations.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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