EGYPT: Life sentence issued for Muslim Brotherhood chief

An Egyptian court has sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohammed Badie and two prominent leaders of the group to life in prison for “planning violent attacks”, judicial officials and a lawyer said. Badie and 37 others connected to the “Rabaa operations room” case are accused of conspiring to stir unrest during protests that followed […]

An Egyptian court has sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohammed Badie and two prominent leaders of the group to life in prison for “planning violent attacks”, judicial officials and a lawyer said.

Badie and 37 others connected to the “Rabaa operations room” case are accused of conspiring to stir unrest during protests that followed the July 2013 military-led ouster of Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood. 

The Public Prosecutor’s Office charged the accused with “preparing an operations room to confront the state and create chaos in the country following the dismantling of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in.”