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Egypt sentences 22 members of Brotherhood to death: judicial sources

An Egyptian court sentenced 22 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on April 20 over an attack on a police station in a district outside Cairo in 2013, judicial sources said. 

The assault was part of a wave of violence that rocked the country after the army removed elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi from power following mass protests against his rule in June 2013. 

Egyptian Court Sentences Muslim Brotherhood Leader to Death

An Egyptian court confirmed the death sentence of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and thirteen others for planning attacks against the state.

The court also sentenced a US-Egyptian citizen and several others to life imprisonment, the BBC reports.

The sentence of Badie, who is also involved in several other trials, is subject to appeal.

Egypt sends four Brotherhood members to death for HQ violence

An Egyptian court sentences four Muslim Brotherhood members to death - two in absentia - as top leader Mohamed Badie and his two deputies get life sentences An Egyptian court on sentenced four Muslim Brotherhood members to death - two in absentia - on Feb. 28 over charges of killing demonstrators outside the group's headquarters in 2013, a judicial source has said.

Egypt court jails dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah for 5 years

An Egyptian court on Feb. 23 sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading dissident in the 2011 uprising that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak, to five years in prison over an illegal protest.
      
The remaining 24 defendants in the case received sentences ranging from three to 15 years.
      

Egypt frees Jazeera reporters pending retrial

An Egyptian court ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists Thursday pending retrial, after they spent more than 400 days in prison in a case that sparked worldwide outrage.
      
Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian and whose family hoped he would be deported, must pay 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($33,000) bail.
      

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