An Egyptian
court sentenced 682 alleged Islamists and Muslim
Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to
death on Monday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the defence partly boycotted. The same
court in the southern province of Minya also reversed 492 of 529
death sentences it passed in March, commuting most of those to life in prison. The court, presided over by judge Said Youssef Sabry, had sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last month amid an extensive *****down on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. The *****down has extended to secular-leaning dissidents who supported Morsi's overthrow but have since turned on the army-installed regime.
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