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An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 people to death for their role in a sit-in protest in 2013 against the dismissal of President Mohamed Morsi, which resulted in violent clashes and the death of hundreds of protesters. The Cairo Criminal Court delivered its final verdict in the case of 739 people facing charges of violence in Rabaa al-Adawiya, a square in the Egyptian capital. A large number of people convicted on Saturday were members or supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Essam El-Erian, Mohamed Beltagy, Abdel-Rahman al-Bar and Osama Yassin were among the 75 people sentenced to death. Mohamed Badie, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was condemned by human rights groups. Amnesty International has described it as a "travesty of grotesque justice". "No policeman has been accused of killing at least 900 people during protests in Rabaa and Nahda. what kind of justice this trial was, "said Amnesty International after Saturday's sentencing.
