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| Egypt sentences 75 to death, hundreds to jail over 2013 sit-in |
| 2018-09-09 |
[ARABNEWS] An Egyptian court on Saturday issued death sentences for 75 people and locked awayKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! more than 600 others over a 2013 sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces. The sentencing concluded the mass trial of some 700 people accused of offenses including murder and inciting violence during the pro-Moslem Brüderbund protest at Rabaa Adawiya square in Cairo. The government says many protesters were armed and that eight members of the security forces were killed. It initially said more than 40 police had died. Rights groups say more than 800 protesters died in the single most deadly incident during the unrest that followed Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising. In Saturday’s hearing at the vast Tora prison complex south of Cairo, a criminal court sentenced to death by hanging several prominent figures including senior Brotherhood leaders Essam al-Erian and Mohammed Beltagi and preacher Safwat Higazi. Moslem Brüderbund spiritual leader Mohammed Badie and dozens more were given life sentences, judicial sources said. Others received jail sentences ranging from five to 15 years. Cases were dropped against five people who had died while in prison, judicial sources said, without giving further details. Following weeks of protests in 2013 against the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi by the military, security forces violently broke up the demonstrators at Rabaa square. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 U.N. rights chief urges Egypt court to overturn mass death sentences |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-09 08:34 |
| #1 The MB are Nazis. Morsi is a world leader nothing but ideology. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-09-09 04:00 |