Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters face death sentence in Egypt

Relatives outside the courthouse in the southern province of Minya react to news of the sentence on March 24. A court in Egypt has sentenced to death more than 500 supporters of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood following violence that broke out in the southern city of Minya last August. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry puts the number of those sentenced at 529.

A single policeman was killed.

Only 147 of the defendants were reportedly in court Monday. Sixteen people were also acquitted at the hearing. Another 683 defendants will appear before the same judge Tuesday in relation to the unrest.

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