It is a sweeping attack of the Egyptian Justice: A court in al-Minya has sentenced more than 500 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to death. They are accused of murder, among other things.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 Muslim Brotherhood : They are accused of murder , among other things , so they should now receive the death penalty. That said , a lawyer for the defense. “The court has decided to sentence defendant to death 529 . 16 were acquitted ,” said the lawyer Ahmed al -Sharif . The verdict can not be challenged .

More than a thousand Muslim brothers had been accused of having stormed last August two police stations in Adwa and Matay in northern Egypt . In the incident, the police officer Mostafa Ragab El- Atar was killed. Four other officers were injured . So quoting the news portal ” Ahram Online” the public prosecutor.

The attackers are said to have in the attack and the weapons of the police station looted and released prisoners. The incident took place on 14 Of August , the same day , were smashed to the two large proislamistische demonstrations in Cairo. At the rallies died hundreds, thousands were injured.

Last Tuesday, a court sentenced a police officer to ten years in prison for manslaughter. Together with three other officials should have sprayed tear gas in an overheated vehicle with protesters trapped the condemned. In this case, 37 people died. It was the first judgment in connection with the riots in Cairo last summer.

The incident was part of the police actions to bloody crackdown on mostly peaceful protests length of the Islamists in Egypt. These had demonstrated against the dismissal of elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi by the military in July 2013. In the often brutal operations by the security forces at least 1,400 people were killed partly by systematic executions.

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