Egypt Upholds Death Penalty For 12 Brotherhood Members
June 15, 2021
5:02 am
An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences which was previously issued to 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, including two senior leaders of the outlawed Islamist movement, a judicial official has disclosed.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the court of cassation also reduced sentences for 31 other Brotherhood members, in the trial relating to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, to life in prison, the official told reporters.
Those condemned to death were convicted of ‘arming criminal gangs which attacked residents and resisted policemen as well as possessing firearms and ammunitionβ¦ and bomb-making material,’ the …
