The Court of Cassation reduced the sentence of 31 defendants to life
Final sentences to death against 12, including leaders of the “Brotherhood” in Egypt
The High Court of Justice in Egypt.
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The Egyptian Court of Cassation upheld the death penalty for 12 defendants and reduced the sentence to 31 from death to life in the case known in the media as “the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in.”
The verdict included approving the death penalty for a number of leaders of the terrorist "Brotherhood" group, including Abd al-Rahman al-Bar, Muhammad al-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy and Osama Yassin.
The court decided to dismiss the case for the accused due to death, and confirmed the rest of the judgments issued in the case.
The Cairo Criminal Court had previously sentenced 75 defendants to death, including Safwat Hegazy, Mohamed El-Beltagy, Essam El-Erian, Abdul Rahman Al-Bar, Tariq Al-Zumar, Assem Abdel-Majid, Omar Zaki, Osama Yassin and Wagdy Ghoneim, all of whom are Brotherhood leaders and allies.
It also sentenced the group's guide, Mohamed Badie, and Bassem Odeh, to life in prison, as well as 374 other defendants to 15 years in prison, and 23 defendants, including Osama Mohamed Morsi, to 10 years in prison.
The Public Prosecution had referred the defendants to the felonies because “during the period from June 21, 2013 until August 14, 2013 at the First Nasr City Police Department, Cairo Governorate, they organized a gathering of more than five people in the vicinity of Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square that would put public peace and security at risk. Including intimidation, intimidation and intimidation among people, endangering their lives, freedoms and security, committing crimes of assault on people and money of those who visit or penetrate the vicinity of their gathering, those opposed to their political affiliation, ideas and beliefs, and resisting policemen charged with dispersing their gathering, premeditated murder, vandalism and intentional damage to buildings and property. and occupying the public by force, blocking roads, deliberately disrupting land transportation, endangering their safety, restricting the movement of citizens and depriving them of the freedom to live.”
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