CAIRO - The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison and a number of the group's leaders, including Essam al-Arian, Saad al-Husseini, Mohammed al-Beltagi and five others, in a retrial of the case known as "breaking into the eastern border."
The court sentenced Sobhi Saleh, Hamdi Hassan and six others to 15 years in prison.
The "Cairo felonies" held at the Courts Complex of Boutra, Constituency 11 Terrorism, headed by Counselor Mohamed Shereen Fahmy, handed down its verdict in the case.
The deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, "deceased", and other members of the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement are on trial.
The court had heard the pleadings of the defense of the defendants after they had responded to their requests and heard all witnesses of proof and exile.
It is worth mentioning that the number of defendants in this case is 28 accused of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and members of the Palestinian Hamas movement and the Lebanese Hezbollah, headed by Rashad Bayoumi, Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohammed Saad Al-Katatni, Saad Al-Husseini, Mohammed Badie Abdel-Meguid, Mohamed El-Beltagy, Safwat Hijazi, Issam El-Din El-Erian, Youssef Al-Qaradawi and others.
The retrial of the defendants comes after the Court of Cassation in November overturned the verdicts issued by the Criminal Court, headed by Chancellor Sha'ban al-Shami, of the executions of Mohamed Morsi and Mohamed Badie, the group's general guide, his deputy Rashad al-Bayoumi, Yahya Hamed, a member of the counseling office, and Mohamed Saad al-Katatni, speaker of the People's Assembly. The dissolved and leading Brotherhood Issam al-Arian, and the punishment of 20 others accused of life imprisonment », and decided to retry them.