EGYPT: 14 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

July 9, 2015: 14 members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood were sentenced to death in two separate terrorism-related cases.
In the first case, a court in Mansoura sentenced 10 Muslim Brotherhood members to death for killing a policeman in 2014. The defendants killed the policeman, who was a security guard for one of the judges hearing the trials of ousted Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi. After being arrested, some of the defendants admitted killing the policeman.
In the other case in Mansoura, four members of the banned group were sentenced to death for terrorist acts that targeted police and army personnel, possessing weapons and sneaking into the Gaza Strip for weapons training. Nine other defendants, eight of whom were sentenced in absentia, were given life in prison in the same case.
All the death sentences will be referred to the Grand Mufti, who according to Egyptian law must review all death penalties, though his decision is not binding. (Sources: dnaindia.com, 09/07/2015)