{"id":8436,"date":"2014-03-25T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2014-03-25T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:12:50","slug":"egypt-muslim-brotherhood-leader-and-682-others-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8436","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader and 682 others on trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Egyptt\"<\/a>
Mohammed Badie denies the Muslim Brotherhood acted violently<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 682 other supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are standing trial in central Egypt.<\/p>\n

They face charges including the murder of several policemen during a crackdown on the Islamist movement in August.<\/p>\n

Most of the defendants are being tried in absentia and officials said Mr Badie was not in court for security reasons.<\/p>\n

The mass trial in Minya province comes a day after the same court sentenced 528 other Morsi supporters to death.<\/p>\n

There has been widespread condemnation of the sentences, which were delivered on only the second session of the trial.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the Brotherhood since the military overthrow Mr Morsi in July. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands of others arrested.<\/p>\n

Mr Badie, the Brotherhood’s general guide, is being detained along with dozens of other senior leaders of the Islamist movement.<\/p>\n

The military stepped in after months of street protests against Mr Morsi – Egypt’s first democratically-elected president.<\/p>\n

Following Mr Morsi’s removal from office the Brotherhood set up protest camps in Cairo, at which Mr Badie was a prominent figure.<\/p>\n

Police eventually dispersed the camps, killing hundreds of protesters, and Mr Badie went into hiding. He was detained in August.<\/p>\n

Mr Badie’s 38-year-old son Ammar was among those killed in the protests.<\/p>\n

The Brotherhood and human rights groups denounced Monday’s death sentences.<\/p>\n

The verdicts must now go to Egypt’s supreme religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for approval or rejection.<\/p>\n

Analysts say that although death sentences are often handed down in Egypt, few have been carried out in recent years.<\/p>\n

All of those convicted on Monday are expected to appeal.<\/p>\n

The Brotherhood has been declared a terrorist organisation and authorities have punished any public show of support for it.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 682 other supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are standing trial in central Egypt. They face charges including the murder of several policemen during a crackdown on the Islamist movement in August. Most of the defendants are being tried in absentia and officials said Mr Badie was not in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8440,"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-8436","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\/8436","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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}