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Egypt court to retry Muslim Brotherhood leaders

June 19, 2018 at 12:15 pm

The ex-General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie (L) and 21 other defendants attend a trial session behind a cage at the Cairo Police Academy in Cairo, Egypt on 6 August 2017 [Mostafa El-Shemy / Anadolu Agency]

The Cairo Criminal Court is to retry today the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohammed Badie along with 11 other Brotherhood leaders, Al-Mesryoon reported yesterday.

Khairat Al-Shater, Saad Al-Katatni and Mohamed El-Beltaji are amongst those also being tried in the case.

The suspects are accused of supplying unknown people with guns, weapons and other equipment to plan and carry out attacks on people near the Muslim Brotherhood office with the aim of killing them.

International human rights groups have repeated condemned Egypt’s continued detention of opposition groups and activists.

Since incumbent President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took over power in a military coup in 2013, he has banned the Muslim Brotherhood and thrown thousands of its members in prison, many have been subjected to mass trials during which they have been given no opportunity for defence.

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