Cairo:An Egyptian court has ordered death sentence to Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie together with his 682 supporters. This is a controversial move of the ruling Government which has been facing turbulence since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last year.
The convicts were accused of involvement in killings and attempted murder of policemen in the Southern Minya province on August 14 last year. On this day police have killed hundreds of supporters of the ousted Islamist president Morsi in clashes.
Several woman relatives of the accused waiting outside the courtroom were depressed on hearing the news of the death penalty of their beloveds.
In a separate case, the same court has reversed 492 death sentences out of 529 it passed last month to life term imprisonment.
Mohammed Badie, a white-bearded professor of seventy years age, became the supreme leader of the Brotherhood in Egypt in the year 2010. He had condemned the removal of president Morsi by the Egyptian military.Morsi belongs to the Brotherhood, an Islamist movement which swept all elections in Egypt following the fall of military dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011.During Morsi’s tenure Egypt was facing chronic political uncertainty and violence and that ultimately led to his removal by the powerful military.Egypt has been in political convulsions since the overthrow of Mubarak in 2011.

Video on trial by the Egyptian court.