The court yesterday sentenced another 37 defendants in the “violent incidents on Al Nasr Street” case to life in prison and another 13 to 10 to 15 years in prison, the state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported.
An emergency state security court in Cairo on Monday sentenced eight top Muslim Brotherhood figures, including the now-outlawed movement’s top leader in Egypt, to death for violence in 2013 after Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by then-army chief and current president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
The supreme emergency state security court imposed the death penalty on Mohamed Badia, 80 today, and several other figures in the movement of Mohamed Morsi, the democratically elected president who ruled for a short time, who have since died, including Mahmoud Izzat, Mohamed El Beltagi and Shafuat Hegazi.
All of them had already been sentenced, some to death, for other cases in recent years.
The court yesterday sentenced another 37 defendants in the “violent incidents on Al Nasr Street” case to life in prison and another 13 to 10 to 15 years in prison, the state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported.
In 2022, Egypt ranked fourth in the world for the number of executions, according to Amnesty International. In the same year, judges imposed the death penalty on 538 defendants. It was the highest known number of such sentences in the world.
Since taking power, Mr. Sisi has been waging a campaign of harsh repression against the opposition, mainly centered on the Muslim Brotherhood. Thousands of members and supporters of the brotherhood have been imprisoned.
The Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt, now banned, with members continuing their activity far beyond the borders, was for a long time the main opposition movement, despite its repression, and even won the first free elections in country, in the midst of the so-called Arab Spring, in 2011.
On August 13, 2013, a month after the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, hundreds of his supporters were killed in an operation to break up sit-ins in Cairo, with police accusing them of being armed.
Since then, thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members have been sentenced to sentences ranging from a few years in prison to death, others have been exiled, while their leaders, such as former president Morsi, have died in prison.
Source :Skai
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