{"id":37127,"date":"2018-04-14T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/37127-egypt-court-upholds-life-sentence-against-brotherhood-leader.html"},"modified":"2018-04-14T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T16:55:57","slug":"egypt-court-upholds-life-sentence-against-brotherhood-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/37127-egypt-court-upholds-life-sentence-against-brotherhood-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"Egypt court upholds life sentence against Brotherhood leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"txt-textContent\">\n<div class=\"text fontsize_0 jq_Content jq_langdir\">\n<p>An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a life sentence against the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie for \"planning violent attacks\", judicial officials and his lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Cassation also upheld life sentences against two other Brotherhood leaders including Mahmoud Ghozlan, a Brotherhood spokesman, along with five-year prison terms for 14 others, defence lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Badie's life sentence -- his third -- and the court's other rulings are final and cannot be appealed.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were accused of conspiring to stir unrest during protests that followed the July 2013 military-led ouster of Egypt's Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The retrial came after the Court of Cassation scrapped a 2015 ruling under which Badie and 13 others were condemned to death and 34 defendants given life terms -- 25 years in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The court has cancelled scores of death sentences against Morsi supporters, including against the deposed president himself.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt designated the Brotherhood a \"terrorist\" organisation in December 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a life sentence against the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie for \"planning violent attacks\", judicial officials and his lawyer said. 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