{"id":3589,"date":"2014-04-29T05:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T05:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2014-04-29T05:45:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T05:45:42","slug":"egyptian-court-sentences-683-people-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/29\/3589\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian court sentences 683 people to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/muslim-Brotherhood-leader.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>An Egyptian judge has sentenced 683 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death, including the group&#8217;s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, and confirmed the death sentences of 37 of 529 alleged supporters previously condemned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Outside the courtroom on Monday, when news of the sentences broke, families of the accused began to scream and several women fainted, falling to the ground.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mohamed Elmessiry, an Amnesty International researcher monitoring the cases, said they &#8220;lacked basic fair trial guarantees&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The defendants from the first case whose death sentences were not upheld were each sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many of the lawyers for the accused boycotted the hearing, demanding that the judge be recused and calling him a &#8220;butcher&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mohamed Abdel Waheb, a lawyer who represents 25 of the defendants, said the verdict was handed down in a court session lasting less than five minutes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Previously, he said, the single session in the trial lasted just four hours, during which the judge refused to listen to any arguments from the defence.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdel Nasser Hassanien, standing outside the courtroom, said five of his relatives were among those sentenced to die, including his brother, Ahmed Hassenein Abdelatty, 22.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Of the five only one is related to the Muslim Brotherhood, and he didn&#8217;t do anything,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Global attention<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Judge Saeed Youssef first attracted international condemnation and prompted an outcry from human-rights groups after he handed down the initial sentence for the 528 defendants on March 24, following a brief trial marked by irregularities.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Monday he reversed 492 of those 529 death sentences, commuting most of them to life in prison.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among those freshly sentenced to death today was Badie, the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood &#8211; the group&#8217;s most senior leader.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is among 77 of 683 defendants in custody; the remainder were tried in absentia and have an automatic right to a retrial. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Egyptian law requires that death sentences are confirmed by the presiding judge after a comment has been invited from the Grand Mufti of Al Azhar, the country&#8217;s leading religious official.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Mufti&#8217;s opinion to the judge is secret.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The guilty verdict and death sentences are still subject to appeal at the Court of Appeal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The case killed the credibility of the Egyptian judicial system,&#8221; said Elmessiry of Amnesty 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