Minya Criminal Court sentenced 182 Muslim Brotherhood supporters including the group’s supreme guide Mohamed Badie to death over riots in Adwa village in Minya, which followed dispersal of Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins in 2013.
The court also sentenced other four suspects to life and cleared 496 persons.
Among the suspects given death sentences Mamdouh Mabrouk, head of the group’s administrative office in Minya, Mohamed Abdel Azeem, former MP of Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in Minya, and Mohamed Halim, secretary of FJP in Adwa.
According to the court, 74 suspects were present during the trial, while the rest were absent. A child is among the cleared defendants.
The court earlier submitted documents of the lawsuit to mufti to review the death sentences of 683 suspects of Brotherhood supporters including Badie. They face charges of killing, storming, burning, robbing police station of Adwa in August.
The same court earlier gave death and life sentences to 1,211 Brotherhood supporters in Adwa and Matay villages in March and April. It cleared 17 persons, issued death sentences against 37 persons, life sentences to 491 defendants in Matay and submitted documents of 683 suspects to mufti to ratify death sentence.
The court issued the death sentence on 28 April and submitted the suspects’ documents to mufti, while lawyers of the suspects abstained from attending the session as they requested judge replacement.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
