The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, and several other prominent Islamists were sentenced on Saturday to life imprisonment for murders and incitement to violence, judicial sources said, reports the Patria news agency.
Badie faces a series of legal proceedings and has already been handed two death sentences and five life sentences in separate cases, but he still has the possibility to appeal those verdicts.
The sentence handed down on Saturday relates to an attack on a police station in the city of Port Said in 2013 in which five people were killed. That attack was part of a wave of violence that engulfed Egypt after the army ousted elected President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 following mass protests against his regime.
Senior official Mohamed El-Beltagy, Islamist cleric Safwat Hegazy and 16 others were also sentenced to life imprisonment, 28 were sentenced to ten years in prison, and 68 were acquitted. Another 76 people were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, writes Index.
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