An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and at least 182 of his supporters, according to Al Arabiya television network.
The court’s decision came two months after it referred the case against the Brotherhood’s general guide Mohamed Badie and hundreds of others to the state’s highest religious authority, the Mufti – the first step towards imposing a death sentence.
They were charged over violence that erupted in the southern Egyptian town of Minya in July in the aftermath of the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood member, after mass protests against his rule.
One senior police officer was killed in the violence…
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