An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment of Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badia, his deputy Khairat al-Shater and four others in the case known as the "Guidance Office events."
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 25-year-old Badi, Al-Shater, Rashad Mohammed al-Bayoumi, Abdel Rahim Mohammed Abdel Rahim, Mahmoud Ahmed Abu Zeid and Mustafa Abdel-Azim Fahmi to several years of life imprisonment, including setting up a plan to end the demonstrations through heavily armed men and firing them while acquitting them of murder charges Possession and cracking.
| Judge Mohammed Shirin Fahmi presides over court (Reuters) |
Provisions of acquittal
The court, which was held at the Institute of Police Secretaries in Tora under the chairmanship of Chancellor Mohammad Shirin Fahmi, acquitted six others, including former Speaker of the People's Assembly Saad Al-Katatni, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, Essam Al-Erian and Mohammad Al-Beltagy, along with Ayman Haddah, Usama Yassin and Hussam Al-Shahat.
It also ruled that the criminal case for the death of the former leader of the former Muslim Brotherhood, Mahdi Akef, will be re-tried for the second time.
According to the Egyptian law, the defendants are left with one degree of cassation before the Court of Cassation - the highest appeals court - provided that the appeal is filed within 60 days from the date of the reasons for the ruling.
The events took place in front of the Guidance Office in the Mokattam suburb southeast of Cairo during the June 30, 2013 protests demanding the departure of President Mohamed Morsi, the first elected civilian president, to kill nine people and injure 91 others.
Badia is being tried in more than 40 cases in eight provinces, some of which have been sentenced to varying periods of imprisonment, including a final sentence of life imprisonment in one case, as well as irrevocable verdicts.