Grand Mufti Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/grand-mufti/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Grand Mufti Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/grand-mufti/ 32 32 More post coup death sentences in Egypt https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/more-post-coup-death-sentences-in-egypt/ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/more-post-coup-death-sentences-in-egypt/ Fourteen Egyptians have been sentenced to death for their part in violence following the military overthrow of Mohamed Moursi’s democratically elected government. Their sentences, like all capital punishment determinations, are subject to review by the Grand Mufi, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority. The sit-ins that followed Egypt’s military coup in mid-2013 turned violent when they […]

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]]> Fourteen Egyptians have been sentenced to death for their part in violence following the military overthrow of Mohamed Moursi’s democratically elected government.

Their sentences, like all capital punishment determinations, are subject to review by the Grand Mufi, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority.

The sit-ins that followed Egypt’s military coup in mid-2013 turned violent when they broke up and demonstrators attacked police stations, churches and government buildings.

The court has sentenced 14 people to death for this. Those condemned include Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie.

He’s facing a number of trials for the post-coup violence that killed dozens and wounded hundreds.

Indeed he’s been sentenced to death before but this has been commuted to life imprisonment.

El Sisi, who won election as Egypt’s sixth president has banned the Muslim Brotherhood.

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