An Egyptian University decided on Tuesday to sack the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, after he received a death sentence in Monday’s notorious mass trial.
Mohamed Badie, 71 years old, is an award-winning scientist and a tenure professor at the department of veterinarian medicine at Beni Sweif University.
On Monday, the Minya Criminal Court handed down hundreds of death sentences against opponents of the July military coup, including Badie. The judge referred the files of 683 defendants, only 71 of them jailed, to the Mufti for consultation, but his opinion is not binding. The same court upheld on Monday death sentences against 37 other defendants and life imprisonment for 491 others, only 91 of them are in jail. The sentences and the trials have been widely condemned as politically motivated and a miscarriage of justice.
On Monday, the Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat said he decided to challenge all the verdicts that include a death sentence or life imprisonment in the cases heard by the Minya court after worldwide criticism of the trials.