Badie and other Brotherhood leaders sentenced to life in prison over violence

Saturday 28-02-2015 01:08 PM
Badie and other Brotherhood leaders sentenced to life in prison over violence
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CAIRO, Feb 28 (Aswat Masriya) – The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 13 other group leaders to life in prison for inciting violence.

Badie, his deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi and 15 other Brotherhood members were facing trial over violence which took place outside the group's headquarters on June 30 and July 1, 2013. The violence left at least nine killed.

The court ratified on Saturday the death sentences served to four defendants in the case last December.

The defendants sentenced to death are: Mohamed al-Beshlawi, Mostafa Fahmy, Atef Abdel Gelil and Abdel Rehim Mohamed.

Defendants sentenced to life in prison meanwhile include Brotherhood deputy leaders Bayoumi and Shater, and leading Brotherhood figures Mohamed El-Beltagy, Essam el-Erian and Mohamed Saad al-Katatni. 

Five of the defendants were sentenced in absentia. They included two sentenced to death.

The 18 defendants were charged with premeditated murder, attempted murder, possession of explosives and firearms, and incitement to murder.

Their sentences can be appealed at the Court of Cassations.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced in August 2014 Badie and other Brotherhood leaders to life in prison for inciting clashes outside al-Istiqama Mosque in Giza in July 2013.

Badie has already been served a ratified death sentence over clashes in Minya last August. A criminal court confirmed in June 2014 the supreme guide's death sentence alongside 182 other defendants. The mass death sentence has garnered international condemnation.

The Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide remains facing a string of other charges in more than one pending court case.

He was referred to a military tribunal twice this month over charges of inciting violence following the deadly dispersal of two sit-ins set up in support of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in August 2013.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders have often found themselves behind bars and facing courts since the ouster of Brotherhood member and former President Mursi in July 2013, following mass protests against his rule. 

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