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| Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 182 supporters sentenced to death in Egypt |
| 2014-06-22 |
| [ABC.NET.AU] An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and 182 of his supporters, in a mass trial of Islamists who face a fierce crackdown under the new president. The court's decision came two months after it referred the case against Mohammed Badie and 683 others to the state's highest religious authority, the Mufti — the first step towards imposing a death sentence. Badie and the other defendants were charged in connection with violence that erupted in the southern town of Minya following the ousting of the Brotherhood's president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... last July. One police officer was killed in the violence. The court had initially sentenced 683 people to death, but on Saturday it commuted death sentences of four defendants, including two women, to life in prison and acquitted 496 others, prosecutor Abdel Rahim Abdel Malik said. There was no immediate reaction on the ruling from the Brotherhood, whose members are either in jail or on the run. Which is why there was no immediate reaction... The decision comes just two weeks after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi took office as president after winning an election in May. Mr Sisi led the overthrow of Morsi, which was followed by protests by Morsi's supporters and a crackdown by security forces in which hundreds of Islamist protesters were killed and thousands incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! The preliminary sentences fired up the rubes among Western governments and rights groups, with the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... both saying they were appalled by the rulings. Rights group |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Badie? |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-22 11:04 |
| #1 Git her done! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-06-22 11:02 |