The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced 75 defendants, including leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to death by hanging in the case of a fourth sit-in and sentenced 47 defendants, including the leader of the group, Mohammed Badia, to 25 years in prison.
Judicial sources said the court also sentenced 374 defendants to 15 years in prison and Osama Mohamed Morsi, a son of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, to 10 years in prison and 22 to 10 years in prison.
A total of 215 defendants, including journalist Mahmoud Abu Zaid (Shukan), were sentenced to five years in prison.
Legalists say that strict imprisonment deprives the convicted of any part of the sentence.
The court, headed by Counselor Hassan Mahmoud Farid, ruled that the criminal proceedings for five defendants who had died during the trial had been suspended. A total of 739 defendants were tried in the case of the sit-in.
Of those sentenced to death, 31 were sentenced in absentia, and others are present.
The sources said that among those sentenced to death were the two leading members of the group Mohammed al-Beltagy and Issam al-Arian, Mufti of the group Abdul Rahman al-Barr, and Osama Yassin, minister in the government of Mursi, and pro-group advocate Safwat Hijazi, and Assem Abdel Maged.
Of those sentenced to death, 31 were on the run, and a total of 315 accused were tried.
Those sentenced to death or imprisonment may appeal to the Court of Cassation, the highest Egyptian civil court, and may support or amend the ruling. If it is canceled, the trial shall be retried before it. The cassation provisions are final and can not be appealed.