Mass Death Sentence for Egypt's Obama VOTERS, err, Muslim Brotherhood Members

[Busybody]

Mass Death Sentence for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Members



Egypt's interim, military-run regime is cracking down--hard--on the Muslim Brotherhood.

The crackdown is being coordinated with the Gulf states. Except for Qatar, which has backed the MB, the Gulf states are working with Egypt to eradicate the organization.

The first Obama administration embraced the MB and encouraged its overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a U.S. ally for three decades.

 

[Busybody]

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder on Monday, a defence lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement.

The ruling was the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt's modern history, lawyers said.

Turmoil has deepened since the army overthrew Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in July. Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood members in the streets, and arrested thousands.

Most of the defendants at Monday's hearing were detained during clashes which erupted in the southern province of Minya after the forced dispersal of two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo on August 14.

Islamists have also stepped up attacks on the police and army since Mursi's ouster, killing hundreds and carrying out high profile operations against Interior Ministry officials.

"The court has decided to sentence to death 529 defendants, and 16 were acquitted," lawyer Ahmed al-Sharif told Reuters. The ruling can be appealed.

The charges against the group, on trial in Minya since Saturday, include violence, inciting murder, storming a police station, attacking persons and damaging public and private property.

"This is the quickest case and the number sentenced to death is the largest in the history of the judiciary," said lawyer Nabil Abdel Salam, who defends some Brotherhood leaders including Mursi.

State television reported the sentences without comment. A government spokesman did not immediately respond to calls.

ATTACKS

Only 123 of the defendants were present. The rest were either released, out on bail or on the run.

"When the trial starts on Saturday and it is just a procedural hearing, and the judge doesn't listen to any lawyers or witnesses and doesn't even call the defendants, you are before a group of thugs and not the judiciary," Walid, a relative of one of the defendants, said by phone.

It was not possible to confirm his account of the proceedings independently.

The government has declared the Brotherhood a "terrorist" group. The Brotherhood says it is committed to peaceful activism.

Analysts say some of its members could turn violent if the state keeps up pressure on the movement, which won the vast majority of elections since an army-backed popular uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Egyptian authorities make no distinction between the Brotherhood and hardcore militant groups based in the Sinai peninsula who pose a major security challenge to the state despite army offensives against their fighters.

Mursi and other top Brotherhood leaders, who are on trial on a range of charges, accuse the military of staging a coup and undermining democracy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


Happy-go-lucky SECULAR Community Organizers...

Where's the Obama outrage???

 

[bobbyinhouston]

Death sentence

Quick justice! No manpy pampy let's wait 15 years before we execute them. Please do it out in public when they are beheaded or hung.

 

[bobbyinhouston]

Muslim brothehood

I know where one is hiding.

 

[Busybody]

not hiding

he is in plain sight!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Maybe the Chinese can arrest his wife for hate crimes.

 

[eyer]

The sitting Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and its members terrorists themselves - I have no problem with that at all...

...just as I have no problem with the American government declaring al Qaeda a terrorist organization and its members terrorists.

I have a humongous issue with the Egyptian government staging a dog-and-pony trial which concludes with mass sentences of death because:

1. innocent people will be murdered
2. such a overt facade is a tremendous travesty of justice
3. the sitting Egyptian government, in carrying out this travesty, is only glorifying itself in the eyes of its most extreme supporters
....while further discrediting themselves in the eyes of a great many of their own people and probably the great majority of the world's
....people

It's the same humongous issue I have with the USSA government as they unconstitutionally (without due process) sentence and execute death sentences by drone on foreigners and Americans alike because:

1. innocent people have been murdered
2. it is a tremendous travesty of justice, with the Constitution suffering most of all
3. the sitting USSA government...

...ditto.

Righteousness occupies the highest level Lady Justice may hold her scale...

...the more that scale is lowered by assaulting the honor of justice itself, the more the prosecutors become as guilty as their convicted.