Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie shouts slogans from the defendant’s cage during his trial with other leaders of the Brotherhood in a courtroom in Cairo December 11, 2013. Credit: Reuters/StringerCAIRO – 9 July 2020: The Court of Cassation on Thursday rejected an appeal by Muslim Brotherhood group-affiliated defendants in one of the cases, over charges including helping supplying unknown people with ammunition. Cairo Criminal Court in December 2018 sentenced Mohamed Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat Al-Shater, a senior leader of the group and four others to life (25 years in jail) in this case known in media as “the incidents of the guidance office”. The group’s figures face charges of providing weapons, ammunition and explosives to unknown figures and planning to commit a crime. Egyptian authorities have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood group and designated it as a terrorist organization after former President Mohamed Morsi, who was a leader for the group, was ousted in 2013. Beltagi and Erian are among the convicts who were handed down life imprisonment, stated a Cairo criminal court, held in Torah, southern Cairo.

Source: Egypt Today July 09, 2020 12:00 UTC