Former supreme guide of the banned Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group Mohamed Badie and ten other Muslim Brotherhood members were sentenced to life imprisonment (25 years in jail) in a trial dubbed in media as “illegal crossing of eastern borders” on Saturday.
MB leaders Mohamed Beltagy and Essam El-Erian are among the convicts who were handed down life imprisonment, stated a Cairo criminal court, held in Torah, southern Cairo.The life imprisonment term is unchallengeable and final.
The incident occurred in 2011 amid the events of January 25 Revolution as foreign militants illegally entered Sinai and raided Wadi Al-Natroun prison to free the brotherhood’s prisoners, including Morsi who called the Qatari Al-Jazeera TV channel via satellite phone once he got out on January 28, 2011, the day known as “Fury Friday”.
In January 2018, the Court of Cassation suspended another Cairo Criminal Court’s death sentences against late President Mohamed Morsi, Badie, his deputy Rashad Bayoumi, his bureau’s member Mohie Hamed, Saad al-Katatny, and life sentences against 20 other defendants, ordering a retrial.
Egypt Today
