Egypt upholds death penalty for 12 Brotherhood members | THE DAILY STAR

An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, including two senior leaders of the outlawed Islamist movement, a judicial official said.

The court of cassation also reduced sentences for 31 other Brotherhood members, in the trial relating to a 2013 mass killing by security forces at an Islamist sit-in, to life in prison, the official told AFP.

Those condemned to death were convicted of "arming criminal gangs which attacked residents and resisted policemen as well as possessing firearms and ammunition... and bomb-making material," the court said in its ruling.

Other charges include "killing policemen... resisting authorities... and occupation and destruction of public property", it added.

The rulings are final and cannot be appealed, the judicial source said....AFP