Twelfth lawsuit brought against Muslim Brotherhood leader

The Egyptian Public Prosecution turned on Friday the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and 92 other leaders to the criminal court in the city of Beni Suef on the charge of instigating violence and riots.

This raises the number of lawsuits against Badie to 12. Different courts have issued appealable verdicts in four of them, according to Badie’s defence committee lawyer Mohamed Al-Dimati.

They were accused of burning the headquarters of the city’s governorate, the real estate registration office and a school for nuns, as well as using weapons, endangering public safety and spreading the ideology of a terrorist group.

Al-Dimati said that one of the court sentences against Badie is a death sentence. “All these verdicts are appealable before high courts,” Al-Dimati said. “There are 15 other cases against him being investigated.”

Since the military coup against the first ever freely elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the coup authorities have been accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of “inciting terrorism and violence.” The group said that it has stuck to its longstanding ideology, which is peaceful resistance.