Egypt sentences to death Brotherhood chief, 13 others

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CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Monday condemned to death Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 13 other senior members of the banned movement, state media and lawyers said.

The 14 members of the Brotherhood, which was declared a “terrorist organisation” in 2013, were found guilty of “plotting attacks aimed at sowing chaos” across the country, state news agency MENA reported.

Also read: ‘Sisi regime is more authoritarian than that of Hosni Mubarak’

The court found Mr Badie and his co-defendants, who include the Brotherhood’s former spokesman Mahmud Ghazlan, had set up an “operations room” to prepare attacks against the state in the weeks after the army ousted President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

But lawyer Ahmad Helmi branded the verdicts as “farcical”.

A total of 51 suspects, including the 14 sentenced to death on Monday, are being tried in the case, 31 of whom are behind bars.

The court said it would announce the verdicts against the other defendants on April 11.

Published in Dawn March 17th , 2015

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Pragmatist

Mar 17, 2015 08:04am

Egypt should hold free and fair elections under international supervision to prove Muslim Brotherhood is not the peoples choice. If the population does not vote for them they may be hanged else Sisi should march to the gallows.

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Mirza Mirza

Mar 17, 2015 08:13am

Bad and sad decision by dictators court...what else can we expect? ?

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Riaz

Mar 17, 2015 10:33am

Where are so called "Human Rights Groups" and "Civil Society" now?

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Ajay vikram Singh

Mar 17, 2015 11:21am

Silence of the lambs!

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Concerned

Mar 17, 2015 12:00pm

Feeling very sad for the Egyptian people.... The dictatorship fully reinstated with its ugly face, and the relief was so short lived... Thanks to the support of fearful leaders of the middle east, the coward dictator is ruling the country using full might of military... Is there a way out?

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salman

Mar 17, 2015 01:17pm

@Riaz Human rights groups will only respond to what their master US says....

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Keti Zilgish

Mar 17, 2015 05:18pm

That might very well be replicated in Pakistan but only after the US ditches the Saudis and how likely is that? Bangladesh is an infinitely more fortunate part of the world than what Pakistan, India, USA, China, or KSA can ever be.

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Bernama

Mar 17, 2015 06:39pm

This is payback for the $12 billion promised by Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait.

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Mar 17, 2015 07:43pm

Very sane and progressive decision by the Egyptian court. This should pave the way for Egypt's march towards progress and prosperity

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Mar 17, 2015 09:05pm

@Pragmatist The brotherhood won free and fair elections. Regardless of what you think of them, they were the legitimately democratically elected government. The same way Hamas was and is democratically elected in Gaza.

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Abdul Waheed

Mar 17, 2015 09:11pm

Masters of the world removed a democratically elected government and installed these ugly dictators who are killing people for demanding their rights. Where are the champions of democracy and human rights who want people to have freedom of speech? They only support their puppets in the world and pull strings only when it serves their purpose. Very sad and pathetic.

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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad

Mar 17, 2015 09:56pm

What a great tragedy perpetuated by yet another bunch of American stooges in Egypt?

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pokeman

Mar 18, 2015 12:47am

@Riaz in their rich homes

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