Nine Muslim Brotherhood members jailed for life in Egypt
An Egyptian court has sentenced 9 people to life in jail for their alleged role in violence following the ouster of the country’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi, Press TV reports.
The verdict for the Muslim Brotherhood members was announced at a courthouse in the capital Cairo on Saturday.
All nine of those sentenced to death were convicted of taking part in the violence in 2013 in the northern Ismailia province.
Under the Egyptian law, all the execution sentences will be referred to the Egypt’s Grand Mufti, who has to review all death penalties, although his ruling on the cases is not binding.
Meanwhile, at least 14 anti-government protesters were sentenced to 3 to 10 years in jail for their alleged role in protests in the southern Qalyubia province following Morsi’s ouster.
Since Morsi’s 2013 overthrow in a military coup led by then-army chief and current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian government has been brutally cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood’s top leader Mohamed Badie were sentenced to death earlier this year, along with 100 other senior members of the movement, for escaping from prison in 2011 before the country’s popular revolution that ousted long-time US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The military-backed government has blacklisted the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Human rights groups say the crackdown on Morsi's supporters has left over 14-hundred people dead and thousands arrested, while hundreds have been sentenced to death in mass trials.
A general view shows the Supreme Election Committee during a meeting to announce the dates for Egypt's elections. AFP photo
New Election Date
Egypt has announced parliamentary elections later this year for the month of October to be held in two stages.
Egypt’s Supreme Election Committee said on Sunday that half the governorates will vote on October 18 and 19.
The first phase of the poll had initially been scheduled for March and the second for April earlier this year. However, it was delayed by a Supreme Court ruling that declared part of an electoral law was unconstitutional.
Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012.
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