Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie

EGYPT: MUFTI URGES REVIEW OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADER DEATH SENTENCE

August 7, 2014: Egypt’s Mufti Shaki Allam has urged a reconsideration of the death sentence verdict passed on Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 13 others in the events of Al-Estikama Mosque.
An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s supreme guide, and the other defendants to death on 9 June.
According to Egyptian law, the verdict must be referred to the state’s Mufti for ratification and advisory.
Judicial sources said on Thursday (August 7) that the final sentencing had been postponed until 30 August to allow the Mufti to reconsider the verdict.
The public prosecutor charged the defendants with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, committing terrorism, and vandalising public and private property.
The Mufti’s opinion regarding the death penalty is advisory, thought it should be sought before carrying out the punishment.
The Mufti said in his report that “the court relied solely on investigations that were not enough alone to condemn the defendants,” Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata told Reuters.
The events concerning the case stretch back to 2013, prior to the violent incidents that occurred following the ouster of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on 30 June, 2013.
Badie had already received a confirmed death sentence in a separate case along with 182 supporters in the case of Al-Adwa police station assault in Minya which occurred during the Rabaa Square dispersal in 2013. (Sources: TNN, 07/08/2014)