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/ The Egyptian State Safety Emergency Legal Court docket dominated on Monday to execute 8 Muslim Brotherhood leaders, together with the Brotherhood’s Supreme Information, Mohamed Badie (80 years previous), who has been imprisoned for greater than a decade within the case identified within the media because the “platform occasions.”
The occasions of the “platform occasions” date again to 2013, days after the military eliminated the late president, Mohamed Morsi, who was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Amongst these sentenced to dying can be the performing information, Mahmoud Ezzat (79 years previous), who was arrested in August 2020 in Cairo after being in hiding for a number of years, along with six different leaders: Mohamed El-Beltagy, Amr Mohamed Zaki, Osama Yassin, Safwat Hegazy, Asem Abdel-Majid, and Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud.
The Supreme State Safety Prosecution referred the “platform incidents” case to the State Safety Legal Court docket in April 2021.
The information of the case and the fees towards the defendants relate to the eight leaders organizing a gathering emanating from the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in on Nasr Highway, east of Cairo, reaching the memorial on the platform, a whole bunch of meters away, “with the purpose of extending the world of the sit-in and paralyzing your entire metropolis; to forestall safety forces from dispersing the sit-in sooner or later, along with their want to show and use pressure towards state workers and residents who disagree with them, and that “the eight supplied the remainder of the defendants who participated within the gathering with firearms, ammunition and incendiary units,” based on the case papers.
The investigations said that the eight leaders laid out a plan of occasions for the remainder of the accused and unknown others, and decided the position of every of them in it, whereas the 2 leaders, Osama Yassin and Safwat Hegazy, assumed the duty of main the group within the area, and it claimed the lifetime of Officer Sharif Al-Sibai Abdel-Sadiq from the Normal Administration of Central Safety Forces. He was killed by “unknown, hidden individuals” deliberately, with premeditation and apprehension, in addition to the killing of 14 residents who occurred to be there at instances, or who had been opponents of the group and their actions on the scene of the occasions at different instances, along with the tried killing of 10 members of the safety forces and seven different residents.
The prosecution stated that it had established proof towards the accused based mostly on the testimony of 57 folks, together with officers, workers, and residents who witnessed the occasions, headed by the then-Cairo Safety Director, Main Normal Osama Al-Sagheer, and the Assistant Minister of Inside for the Central Safety Sector, Main Normal Ashraf Abdel Rabbo Abdullah, based on what was reported by Al-Hurra’s correspondent.
The court docket additionally sentenced 37 others to life imprisonment, six defendants to fifteen years in jail, and 7 others to 10 years in jail, whereas acquitting 21 defendants within the case, based on the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Native and worldwide human rights organizations criticize the dying sentences and the crackdown on the Brotherhood for the reason that Egyptian military overthrew Morsi’s rule in July 2013.
In 2015, Human Rights Watch reported that it had documented the killing of no less than 1,185 folks throughout the protests that adopted Morsi’s ouster in August 2013 and that safety forces “systematically responded to the demonstrations with deadly pressure.”