Egypt upholds loss of life sentence for 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures

Egypt’s highest civilian court docket on Monday upheld loss of life sentences towards 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures over a 2013 sit-in which ended with safety forces killing a whole bunch of protesters, judicial sources stated.
The ruling, which can’t be appealed towards, means the 12 males might face execution pending approval by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
They embrace Abdul Rahman Al-Bar, generally described because the group’s mufti or high non secular scholar, Mohamed El Beltagi, a former member of parliament, and Osama Yassin, a former minister.
Many Muslim Brotherhood figures have been sentenced to loss of life in different instances associated to the unrest that adopted the navy’s ousting of Brotherhood president Mohamed Mursi in 2013, however the Court of Cassation ordered retrials.
Monday’s ruling pertains to a mass trial of a whole bunch of suspects accused of homicide and incitement of violence throughout pro-Brotherhood protests at Rabaa Adawiya sq. in Cairo within the weeks after Mursi’s overthrow.
In September 2018, an Egyptian prison court docket sentenced 75 individuals to loss of life and issued various jail phrases for greater than 600 others.
Many defendants had been tried in absentia.
Forty-four of these sentenced to loss of life appealed to the Court of Cassation.
Thirty-one had their sentences modified to life in jail, whereas loss of life sentences had been upheld for 12 others.
A last defendant, the senior Muslim Brotherhood chief Essam el-Erian, died in jail in Cairo in August 2020.

Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, died in jail in 2019.
The court docket additionally upheld jail phrases for a lot of different defendants together with a life sentence for Mohamed Badie, chief of the outlawed Brotherhood, and a 10-year jail time period for Mursi’s son Osaama, the judicial sources stated.
The break-up of the Rabaa sit-in was the only most threatening incident in unrest following Egypt’s 2011 rebellion.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the 2018 sentencing as “the result of an unfair trial” which might end in “a gross and irreversible miscarriage of justice”.