Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists over alleged Islamist riots is shocking news. It may well be hard to imagine that this Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists is unplanned, but the death penalty has already been handed by Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohamed Badie.
Even though the same court reversed 492 death sentences last month, it seems that this month the alternative are more deaths in the sentencing of Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists.
The Muslim brotherhood's supreme leader has been sentenced to death this month, along with 682 other people after a five-minute hearing. The hearing, or rather the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, will now apparently renew international concern over the country's so-called "road-map to democracy".
Mohammed Badie, the Muslim brotherhood's supreme leader, and which is the focal person of the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, was decided guilty in the hearing. He has been accused of inciting riots in the town of Edwa summer of last year which reportedly led to mass arrests. According to authorities, the Brotherhood supporters were furious that President Mohammed Morsi got overthrown, and now these 682 people in the riot, together with Badie, are included in the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists.
Though one might think that there is just cause and reason in the decided execution of the other 682 people to be killed with Badie, no attempt was made in the public hearing to verify the involvement of the hundreds of people.
Apparently, the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists is not well-founded as the parts played by the hundreds of other defendants in the riots weren't identified.
The Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists was due to the mass riots held by these Islamist in which churches, businesses and government offices were burned down. Some policemen were also reportedly killed in the riots.
Judge Said Yussef of the same hearing decided life imprisonment on all but 37 of the 529 death penalties he passed down during a separate case last month. The case was reportedly linked to the same riot in the town of Mattay. Yussef gave no explanation for the decision of the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, even though the decisions had already been transferred to Egypt's Grand Mufti for a clerical opinion.
Relatives of the hundreds included in the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists defended their loved ones claiming that they were not even present during the riots, and that they were just being included because of petty local feuds.
A woman with two sons included in the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists said, "We had a fight with a neighbour who is an undercover policeman. After that he said he was going to 'clean the street of rubbish' like us, and put the boys' names on the list."
When news broke out of the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, relatives of the hundreds of Islamists accused fell to the ground in turmoil.
On the streets right outside the court, perhaps in fear of the riots occurring once oagain, the provincial capital of Minya was blocked off by police and soldiers with armoured personnel carriers.
The accused and their families were not allowed to be in court, and nobody from the inside came out to confirm who from the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists were to be handed death penalties.
Mona Shahada, wife of Mohammed Ali Ahmed, a man who was sentenced to death last month said, "I do not know whether my husband's case has been commuted or not." Ahmed's brother, son-in-law and another relative is also reportedly been given the death penalty. Shahada's 13-year-old son Mahmoud, cried with his mom on the decision of the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists. Shahada added, "But then it makes no difference. It's a disaster, a catastrophe - our home is destroyed and who will raise this child?"
Ahmed was a technical studies teacher, and according to his wife, he had been at school on the morning of August 14, when the mob went through.
The riots which now prompted the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, were reportedly due to the police and army's decision to break up protest sit-ins in Cairo with force. Up to over a thousand Brotherhood supporters were reportedly gunned down.
Egypt's international backers were reportedly shocked over the decision on the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists. The Minya cases and the lack of due process produced severe sentences. According to the Telegraph, no evidence was presented for both cases, and verdicts were made only at the beginning of the second session.
Amnesty International says that the decision over the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists is "grotesque". They added.
Mohammed Abdulwahhab, a defence lawyer in the Edwa case said, "Our right to present our defence was not recognised. This does not happen in a state where the rule of law is followed. We are opposed to criminality but this was not justice."
Despite the severe sentences on the Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists, few still thought positive and expected that the cases will not end in actual executions. The cases will still have the chance to go to the appeal court, which reportedly has a higher reputation for independence.
Egypt mass trial killing 683 Islamists may be a trial not only to the country but to the world. Though few may speculate the worst could not happen, it is possible that the deaths may push through if nobody will act. According to the Telegraph, the decision of killing the leader of the world's most prominent Islamist organisation will be the key test of the new regime, especially if Field Marshal Sisi will be elected president next month.
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