CAIRO – 11 July 2021: Life sentences of Supreme Guide of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group Mohamed Badie and ten other convicts for the charges of staging a prison break during the 2011 Revolution were upheld by the Egyptian court of Cassation on Sunday.
Eight other convicts were acquitted of the charges and, consequently, the sentence of 15-year imprisonment was dropped, the court stated.
Convicts who were sentenced to life imprisonment (25 years as per the Egyptian Criminal Code) include, Rashad Bayoumi, Mohi Hamid, Mohamed Saad al-Katatni, Saad Esmat al-Husseini, Mustafa al-Ghunaimi, Mohamed al-Beltagy, and Ibrahim Abu Auf.
The charges were dropped against late Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed El-Erian due to his death. Erian passed away mid-August 2020 in maximum-security prison of Tora, Southern Cairo.
In September 2019, a Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 11 people, including Badie, to 25 years in prison, in a retrial in this case.
The convicts were charged with storming a number of Egyptian prisons that locate eastern Egypt, assaulting security and police facilities, and killing police officers during the January Revolution 2011, which toppled late President Hosni Mubarak’s era.
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