{"id":8083,"date":"2014-03-24T08:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2014-03-24T08:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:51:05","slug":"egypt-court-sentences-529-morsi-supporters-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8083","title":{"rendered":"Egypt court sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8084\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EGYPT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8084\" alt=\"EGYPT\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EGYPT-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EGYPT-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EGYPT.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mohammed Morsi was removed in July<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacking police.<\/p>\n<p>The group, members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a larger trial involving more than 1,200 Morsi supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian authorities have cracked down harshly on Islamists since Mr Morsi was removed in July.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands have been arrested and hundreds killed.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Minya, south of the capital, Cairo, issued its ruling after only two sessions in which the defendants&#8217; lawyers complained they had no chance to present their case, the Associated Press news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged attacks are said to have taken place in southern Egypt in August after security forces broke up two Cairo protest camps of Morsi supporters demanding his reinstatement.<\/p>\n<p>In the backlash that followed, hundreds of people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacking police. The group, members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a larger trial involving more than 1,200 Morsi supporters. Egyptian authorities have cracked down harshly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}