Cairo: An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death.
International News Agency Reuters An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 people to death for plotting attacks.
The Egyptian state news agency said Sunday that those sentenced to death belonged to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, which was accused of plotting to attack police.
The news says that these ten people were found guilty of forming an armed group called ‘Halwan Brigades’ in the city south of Cairo.
According to the report, Egypt’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, will have to confirm the sentences, and the identities of the accused have not been revealed, and it is not known whether they have accepted the charges.
It should be noted that Egypt has launched the biggest crackdown in its modern history against the Brotherhood, which began in 2013 with massive protests against the government of the country’s first freely elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. It happened after the overthrow of the army.
The Egyptian government has declared the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, while the Brotherhood has long said it believes in peaceful change.
The state news agency MENA quoted the city south of Cairo as saying that the 10 people sentenced to death had formed a group called “Halwan Brigades” They were part of a larger conspiracy to attack targets aimed at overthrowing the government.
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