An Egyptian court today sentenced to death the former leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group, Mohamed Badia, and seven other prominent ringleaders accused of using force and supplying firearms, ammunition and explosive devices to the participants in the Rabaa sit-in. in 2013.
It’s a statement, “the State Security Emergency Criminal Court, convened in the Badr Complex, decided to refer eight Brotherhood leaders to the grand mufti”the highest religious authority in the country, to express “his legal opinion on the death penalty” and whose edicts are not binding.
Among those sentenced are the former spiritual leader of the group, Mohamed Badía; the interim leader, Mahmud Ezat, and the leaders of the brotherhood Amr Zaki, Osama Yasin, Safuat Hegazy, Esam Abdelmayid and Mohamed Abdelmaqsud, most of them sentenced to prison terms in other cases.
According to the note, the Prosecutor’s Office referred the case to the Emergency Criminal Court of State Security after almost eight years of investigations, in which there were numerous cases of violence by the organization that killed many citizens and police officers. Police.
The court asserted that the eight leaders organized a march from the Rabaa al Adawiya sit-in, on the Al Nasr road in Cairoup to the monument in the square, with the aim of expanding the area of the concentration and completely paralyzing the movement of the city, as well as to prevent the security forces from dispersing the sit-in in the future.
The note added that the leaders deployed and used force against state employees and citizens who did not sympathize with the group, and detailed that distributed firearms, ammunition and explosive devices to the participants in the concentration.
In the past years, most of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood have been imprisoned and sentenced with long terms, while others have managed to flee the country after the overthrow of the government of former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, a member of this brotherhood.
This organization was declared a terrorist group at the end of 2013, when the authorities began to persecute not only the leaders, but also members and supporters of the group, from which all their assets were seized, as well as the companies of its members. .
(with information from EFE)
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