Sat 07 September 2019:
An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 people including the head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, to life in prison after a retrial on charges related to mass prison breaks at the height of the 2011 uprising.
The Cairo criminal court on Saturday also sentenced eight others to 15-year imprisonment, on the same national security charges.
This is the latest of several life sentences for Badie.
They are held on charges of storming Egypt’s eastern borders, attacking security forces and the police and killing police officers during the 2011 uprising in conspiracy with the international Muslim Brotherhood and Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the assistance of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The court also acquitted eight others. It dropped the charges against former President Mohammed Morsi, who collapsed and died while appearing in a separate trial in June.
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