The court also withdrew sentences of life in prison for 25 Brotherhood figures in the same case and ordered a retrial Egypts Court of Cassation withdrew on Thursday the death sentences issued to Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 11 other of the groups leading members in the case known publicly as Rabaa Control Room. The court also ...

A court in Egypt has sentenced former President Mohamed Mursi and Muslim brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison for conspiring with foreign groups, Egyptian state TV reports. The verdict said that Mursi and fellow Islamists conspired with Hamas and Hezbollah operatives. In a separate case, Mursi has also been charged with endangering ...

[caption id="attachment_110313" align="alignright" width="242"] The government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has cracked down on the Islamist movement in the past year. Photograph: Gary Calton For The Observer[/caption] (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Saturday dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the banned Muslim ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman expressed concern over the mass death sentences handed down to the members of Muslim Brotherhood party by Egyptian courts. Marziyeh Afkham on Sunday described the move as worrying, and said it runs counter to Egypts ancient civilization and culture, which historically fostered tolerance. She ...