Egypt… Final verdict to death of 12 Brotherhood leaders in Rabia dispersal case
The Egyptian Court of Cassation (the highest arbitral tribunal in the country) has decided to support the execution of 12 accused leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group who were sentenced in the case of the dispersal of the Rabia al Adawiyya sit-in east of Cairo.
The operative part of the verdict included the confirmation of death sentences issued against 12 of the leaders of the group, namely : Abdul Rahman Al-Bar, Muhammad Al-Beltagy, Safwat Hijazi, Osama Yassin, Ahmed Muhammad Aref, Ihab Wajdi Muhammad, Muhammad Abdul Rahman Al-Farmawi, Mustafa Abdul Rahman Hussein Al-Farmawi, Ahmed Farouk Kamel Muhammad, Haitham Sayed El-Araby Mahmoud, Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Zenati, Abdel Adhim Ibrahim Mohamed Attia.
The Court decided that the case against the accused should be concluded and that the rest of the judgements in the case should be upheld.
Earlier, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced to death 75 defendants, including Safwat Hijazi, Mohamed El-Beltagy, Essam El-Erian, Abdul Rahman Al-Bar, Tariq Al-Zumar, Assem Abdel-Majid, Omar Zaki, Osama Yassin et Wagdy Ghoneim, all leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies.
It also sentenced to life imprisonment the group’s leader Mohamed Badie, and Bassem Oudah, the Minister of Supply during the reign of the deposed President Mohamed Morsi, as well as 374 other defendants to 15 years in prison, and 10 years in prison for 23 defendants including Osama Mohamed Morsi, the son of the deposed president, and 22 others.
Supporters of Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, had been holding a sit-in at Rabia al Adawiyya Square in Nasr City, east of Cairo, after he was deposed following mass demonstrations in the 30 June 2013 revolution, amid accusations by the Egyptian security that armed demonstrators were present at the rally and that police officers were shot during his dismissal.
