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Egypt court upholds death sentence for 14 Islamists
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Cairo court on Saturday confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 13 others over Islamist protest violence, while the jailing of a US-Egyptian citizen for life was slammed by the White House.
Two of the 14 defendants sentenced to death have fled the country and will immediately face a retrial if apprehended.
Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata also handed life terms to 23 detained defendants.
The group were accused of plotting unrest from their headquarters in a sprawling Cairo protest camp in the months after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
— AFP
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