Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood chief and 65 others to life in prison

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Middle East Eye

Mohammed Badie was convicted of inciting his supporters to violence

Sept. 23 2018

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 66 people to life in prison, including Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie, over an August 2013 attack on a police station in Minya.

Death sentences were meted out to 183 people over the deadly attack on the police station in the southern province before a retrial was ordered.

On Sunday, around 700 people were tried again in this case, defence lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsood told AFP.

Sixty-six of the 700 were sentenced to life imprisonment - which is 25 years in Egypt - 288 were acquitted, six have died since the first trial and the rest were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison.

Badie, 75, was on Sunday convicted of inciting his supporters to violence in the Minya case following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

Badie, on trial in 35 cases related to the Brotherhood, has been sentenced to death in several of them but the verdicts have been overturned by the court of cassation. He got life sentences in more than five cases.

On 11 September, an Egyptian judicial committee announced an asset freeze on more than 1,000 charities tied to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, as well as those of hospitals and individuals.

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