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By Jake Lippincott
The trial of Supreme Guide to the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie has been postponed to 18 May. Badie, along with 13 others, will face trial in connection to the violence that took place near Istiqamah Mosque in Giza Governorate.
Badie, along with several other low and high ranking members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other secular and Islamist opposition groups, was arrested in the aftermath of the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood-member and former president Mohamed Morsi.
Last week, Badie, along with over 600 other people, was sentenced to death after a short trial regarding the violence that has swept Egypt since Morsi’s overthrow. This was the second trial in as many months that sentenced more than 500 political dissidents to death or life in prison. Both trials have received widespread international condemnation for their brevity and apparent lack of due process.
Referencing a trial in March, where over 500 people were sentenced to death, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch Sarah Leah said the Egyptian “court failed to carry out its most fundamental duty to assess the individual guilt of each defendant, violating the most basic fair trial right. These death sentences should be immediately quashed.”
Badie said: “I did not attend this trial, and I along with 1,000 others have been condemned to death.”
Along with this trial, Badie also faces numerous others on charges ranging from inciting violence to organising protests which blocked roads.
