Court affirms Egypt Muslim Brotherhood death penalties

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An Egyptian court has affirmed capital punishments for 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters blamed for a 2013 assault on a police headquarters, legal advisors say.

A judge had suggested capital punishment for the 683 litigants, in a generally condemned mass trial in April.

Mohammed Badie, pioneer of the banned gathering, was among those whose sentences were maintained. Claims are currently likely.

The military-introduced government has sentenced several its adversaries since December.

Document photograph: Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood pioneer Mohammed Badie motioning as he yells from inside the litigants confine throughout his trial in the capital Cairo, 7 June 2014 Muslim Brotherhood pioneer Mohammed Badie is confronting execution after two different trials

Powers have broken down brutally on Islamists since previous President Mohammed Morsi, who has a place with the Muslim Brotherhood, was evacuated by the military in July 2013 after mass challenges.

Saturday's verdict was conveyed by a court in the town of Minya, south of Cairo.

Four of the respondents were given sentences of 15-25 years in prison and the rest were vindicated.

The respondents were blamed for contribution in the homicide and endeavored homicide of policemen in Minya region on 14 August 2013, the day police killed several Muslim Brotherhood supporters in crashes in Cairo.

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Examination by Bethany Bell, BBC news, Cairo

This is the biggest affirmed mass capital punishment to be passed in Egypt lately. The verdicts and the pace at which the trial was taken care of have drawn broad feedback from human rights bunches.

The judge, Sa'ed Yusef Sabri, has a draconian notoriety, and is known as al-Jazzar, the Butcher. The extremist and previous director of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, Hesham Qasim, told the BBC it was the ideal time for the powers to take measures against the judge for these uncommon sentences.

He said the judge had not seen due methodology, and that once the verdicts were tested, all the sentences would be toppled. The capital punishments, he said, would have a negative effect on Egypt's picture as far and wide as possible and its economy.

The conspicuous human rights extremist, Aida Seif al-Dawla, said the verdicts were politically persuaded. The administration, she said, was settling its political scores with the Brotherhood through executions.

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The charges went from harm and threatening citizens to homicide. Of the 683, everything except 110 were attempted in absentia.

Protection attorneys called the mass trial "absurd" and said a significant number of those denounced were not present throughout the crashes.

Emulating April's trial, the prescribed capital punishments were alluded to the Grand Mufti - Egypt's top Islamic power - for audit.

The court was to consider his feeling before issuing its definite choice.

However reporters say the case is liable to go to Egypt's request courts.

On Thursday, Mr Badie and 13 others were likewise given proposed death penalties over a different case including fatal crashes a year ago.

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