An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 11 people, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, to life in prison for retrial in a case known as prison breaks and eastern borders.
Judge Shirin Fahmy said in his verdict that the late President Mohamed Morsi was worthy of punishment if it were not for him to have died before hand, and that his punishment when the Lord called on the heads of witnesses.
The judge's words were met with criticism on the platforms, and some considered them to claim the right to judge other circumstances.
Morsi was included in the case, but died on June 7, when he appeared in court in another case.
According to the official news agency, the Cairo Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Mohamed Shereen Fahmy, sentenced Mohamed Badie to life imprisonment and 10 others in a retrial in the case of storming the Egyptian prisons and breaking the eastern borders, 15 years imprisonment for eight defendants, and acquittal of nine others.
The most prominent of those sentenced to life imprisonment: Essam al-Arian, Mohammed Beltagy, Saad al-Husseini, and former speaker of parliament Mohamed Saad Katatni, who served as chairman of the dissolved Freedom Party Justice.
The verdict is preliminary and can be appealed for the second time before the Court of Cassation within 60 days of the reasons for the verdict.
Safwat Hijazi, a prominent preacher of the group, was acquitted.
According to the prosecution, the events took place during the January 2011 revolution, and some of the defendants were sentenced in absentia, including Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ayman Nofal, Mohammed Abdel-Hadi, the two leading Hamas leaders, and Sami Shihab, a Hezbollah leader.