A court in Egypt has sentenced 529 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for various charges including murder, judicial sources and a defence lawyer say. The court has decided to sentence to death 529 defendants and 16 were acquitted, lawyer Ahmed al-Sharif said on Monday. He added that the ruling can be appealed. Judicial sources say 153 of the sentenced people are in custody, but the rest are on the run. According to judicial sources, the defendants have been charged with assaulting security forces and vandalizing public property during the violence that erupted after police stormed two protest camps set up by Morsis supporters in Cairo last August. The military-backed government has launched a deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood supporters after the army ousted Morsi in July last year, with hundreds of people killed and thousands arrested. According to a report released by the Associated Press earlier this month, Egypt’s military-backed government has jailed nearly 16,000 people since Morsi’s removal. About 3,000 Muslim Brotherhood members are among those who have been put behind bars. DB/NN 105 15 122 Comments (7)Add Comment Click Here Note: The views expressed and the links provided on our comment pages are the personal views of individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Press TV. Das Kapital Mar 24, 2014 11:59 AM The muslim brotherhood just like the Egyptian army that now governs are both puppets of American/western imperialism, the government of morsi flooded the gsza tunnels with raw sewage, accepted IMF loans indebting egypt, stirred up sectarian hatred against minorities (which culminated in the lynching of 4 shiites) as a way of distraction from morsis failed economic policies Click to Rate ReplyRating0 Umayyad & Abbasid Dynasty repeat? Mar 24, 2014 11:49 AM This looks like a repeat of the Umayyad & Abbasid dynasties terror - you are either with us or belong to the gallows! What a mockery of justice! Click to Rate ReplyRating2 Hakan Mar 24, 2014 11:36 AM This is a disgrace. But then, we cant expect a western pupper government to uphold justice. Click to Rate ReplyRating1 OMG Mar 24, 2014 11:23 AM This is why people of nations must be armed. Very often governments are just criminals. People must be able to defend themselves at any time and all the time. Click to Rate ReplyRating3 Allinone Mar 24, 2014 11:6 AM Yeah this is suspicious, but this article gets the word out so it can be greatly started on debate. Let us not forget the people that did die in the revolution though. I think it would be hard to convict anyone since it was pure chaos as seen in high definition on TV. They just didnt have the substantial evidence, crime fighting labs to match DNA or video etc. The police force was in Chaos, how could they convict that many members with them being on the run? Egypt is not starting the revolution to democracy in the right path. I wouldnt kill none of them so soon, I would send them to jail for 10 years so they can go one person at a time like a normal democracy. If you cannot get the evidence thrown out against you, then you die. If they have wrongful evidence then you have enough time to fight it and live. Its hard to defend yourself when your dead, and whats the point? This is not how you do democracy that for sure. It looks and sounds crazy. Click to Rate ReplyRating0 Regina Mar 24, 2014 10:51 AM They are absolutely out of their minds!!! And what about Mubarak? Wasn´t he the one, who should be charged with murder? And what about the murderer of Brotherhood members?What a crazy, terrible world! Click to Rate ReplyRating8 bastet Mar 24, 2014 10:14 AM Now theyve lost their minds completely. Click to Rate ReplyRating11
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