Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Join 72 Others on Death Row

Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Join 72 Others on Death Row
Mohammed Badie (L), the head of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, holds a press conference. file, Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
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A religious trio in Egypt join dozens more who have been sentenced to death for participating in a 2013 sit-in that ended in hundreds of protestors dying at the hand of Egyptian security forces.

Senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders Essam al-Erian, Mohamed Beltagi, and preacher Safwat Higazi are three of 75 people given the death penalty for joining a 2013 protest.

Richard Szabo
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