CAIRO (Web Desk) – An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentence on Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammad Badie and thirteen others for the charges of planning attcks against the state.
The court also jailed a US-Egyptian citizen and several others for life.
Badie was sentenced in March and is embroiled in several other trials. The sentences are subject to appeal.
Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death in a crackdown on the Brotherhood following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The sentences are the final phase in the trial which saw Muslim Brotherhood leaders charged with encouraging members of the group to confront the state and spread chaos following the dispersal of a sit-in protest in August 2013.
They were handed down following advice from Egypt’s highest Islamic legal official, the grand mufti.
US-Egyptian citizen Mohamed Soltan was sentenced to life for supporting the Brotherhood and transmitting false news.
The son of Brotherhood preacher Salah Soltan, he has been on hunger strike for months and has received attention from local and international human rights organisations.
