Egypt courts sentenced tens of thousands under Sisi
Egyptian courts have issued sentences against tens of thousands of people in the first year under the presidency of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
A new report on the human rights violations in Egypt released Saturday by the Egyptian Observatory of Rights and Freedom revealed that an estimated 92,420 people in the country stood trials in the country’s military and civilian courts.
According to the report, 464 of those tried by the Egyptian court have received death sentences while seven of them have already been executed.
Among the people sentenced to death are the country’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi and the leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood organization Mohamed Badi’e.
Additionally, the report added, 722 of the defendants received life imprisonment sentences.
The rights group further said that while nearly 3,400 suspects were cleared of their charges, another 4,800 were sentences to a total of 39,000 years behind bars.
Morsi and Badie were sentenced to death last month, along with 100 other senior members of the movement for escaping from prison during Egypt’s 2011 popular revolution, which ousted the country’s long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Moreover, Morsi and Badie also received life imprisonment sentences in a separate court ruling that accused them of engaging in “espionage.”
Egypt’s harsh crackdown on the Brotherhood and its supporters has been widely condemned by international human rights organizations.
Since Morsi’s 2013 overthrow in a military coup led by then-army chief and current President Sisi, the Egyptian government has been brutally cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
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