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| Egypt court orders retrial of Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Badie |
| 2018-10-01 |
| [Al Jazeera] A Cairo court has ordered a retrial of the Moslem Brüderbund's leader Mohammed Badie and other senior figures from the group from October 7, judicial sources and state news agency MENA reported. Badie, the Brotherhood's spiritual leader, has already been sentenced to death and prison terms in other trials since Egypt's military removed President Mohammed Morsi, also a member of the Brotherhood, in July 2013. According to MENA, the retrial relates to a case in which Badie and 14 others were handed life sentences for incitement to commit murder and attempted murder of anti-Moslem Brüderbund demonstrators near the group's headquarters in June 2013. Four others were sentenced to death in the February 2015 ruling. Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund banned from politics The new charges include premeditated murder, attempted murder, beating to death and possession of unlicensed weapons, MENA reported. It is not clear why the charges were modified but according to Egyptian law, charges can be altered if new evidence arises. |
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