An Egyptian court has sentenced 183 people to death over the violence that followed the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
The ruling is the follow-up of the preliminary verdict that the court issued against 188 people in a mass trial in December. Among them, two men have been acquitted, while a third one has been handed a 10-year jail term. Charges against two others were dropped after the court discovered that they’re not alive. The ruling found the rest of the defendants guilty of killing police. Back in August 2013, a violent attack on a police station in the restive town of Giza left 13 officers dead. The incident occurred on the same day when Egyptian security forces attacked two Brotherhood protest sit-in camps in Cairo and Giza, killing hundreds of people