The Appeals Court granted on Saturday the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, along with 13 other high- and low-ranking leaders, a retrial in what is known as the “Istiqamah Mosque” case. The court ordered that the cases be looked at by another bench, citing flaws in the investigations. On the same day, the Appeals Court also upheld a 20-year sentence on former president Mohamed Morsi and 14 others in the case of killing protesters during the 2012 clashes outside Itihadiya Palace. Morsi came to power in 2012 and was Egypt’s first democratically elected president. The Egyptian armed forces ousted Morsi on 3 July 2013, in what Morsi’s supporters described as a “military coup”.

Source: Daily News Egypt October 22, 2016 15:56 UTC