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Brotherhood leader Badie unfazed by death sentence
4/29/2014 10:41:42 AM
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was unfazed on Monday by a court decision to refer him to the mufti for a possible death sentence.
"Even if they execute me 1000 times, I will never back down," Badie said during his trial in Cairo, according to his son-in-law Ahmed.
"We were not lying when we said that we are ready to sacrifice our lives for what we believe in," Ahmed quoted the top Brotherhood leader as saying.
All 1,211 defendants are tried on charges of attacking police stations and involvement in acts of violence in Minya.
Shortly after the court hearing, Beni Sueif University President Amin Lotfi decided they had decided to sack Badie from his post as a university professor.
Egypt's army-backed authorities have launched a massive crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since the army ousted elected President Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood leader, last July.
In the eight months since, thousands of the groups' members and sympathizers have been arrested and convicted of multiple charges.
A number of activists who were sentenced to death in the trial have vowed to continue their struggle against the military coup" in Egypt.
"These verdicts are valueless," said Gamal Sayed, who along with 682 defendants was referred by a court in the central Minya province to the mufti to consider possible death sentences against them.
Sayed denied the charges against him, insisting that he was not in Minya when the attack took place.
The defiant anti-coup activist, who was tried in absentia and spoke to Anadolu Agency from an undisclosed location, said that he would continue to join anti-coup activities in Egypt until legitimacy is restored".
Rida Mohamed, another defendant in the same case, described the verdicts as absurd.
"These are politicized verdicts," Mohamed told AA also from an undisclosed location, going on to describe the rulings as a brazen violation of law.
"This has nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood," Mohamed said. "It targets those who oppose the coup and the counter revolution."
Mohamed said that the verdicts prove that the current regime seeks to take revenge from whoever opposes authorities or defends president Morsi.
Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, another condemned defendant, denied the charges against him.
"God only knows that we have nothing to do with this crime," Abdel-Hamid said.
"Our names were only included in the case on the background of political, not criminal, disputes," he added.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Monday condemned mass death sentences handed down by the military junta against supporters of the legal president Mohamed Morsi.
"Such verdicts will not breathe fear and panic into revolutionary people," the Brotherhood said in a statement.
"This is a new episode in the genocide being committed against the peaceful revolutionary people, who will not stop until they regain their freedom," It added.
The Brotherhood said that the death sentences "reflect that corruption has reached the Egyptian Judiciary and augur ill for the future of the country".
Egypt's illegitimate military junta has launched a massive crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since Morsi's ouster by the army last July.
In the nine months since, thousands of the groups' members and sympathizers have been arrested and convicted of multiple charges.
Source: Agencies
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