{"id":2974,"date":"2014-06-21T16:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2014-06-21T16:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T09:14:32","slug":"muslim-brotherhood-leader-and-supporters-death-sentences-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/muslim-brotherhood-leader-and-supporters-death-sentences-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Brotherhood leader and supporters death sentences confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The court&#8217;s decision came two months after it referred the case against the Brotherhood&#8217;s general guide Mohamed Badie and hundreds of others to the state&#8217;s highest religious authority, the Mufti \u2013 the first step towards imposing a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>They were charged over violence that erupted in the southern Egyptian town of Minya in July in the aftermath of the army&#8217;s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a senior Brotherhood member, after mass protests against his rule.<\/p>\n<p>One senior police officer was killed in the violence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-06-21\/death-sentence-for-muslim-brotherhood-leader-mohamed-badie\/5541248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s decision came two months after it referred the case against the Brotherhood&#8217;s general guide Mohamed Badie and hundreds of others to the state&#8217;s highest religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,1328,1327,345,257,4694,254],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-town-of-minya","tag-mohamed-badie","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}