Egypt’s Supreme Emergency State Security Court sentenced to death eight men convicted of being members of the Muslim Brotherhood organization on Monday, including the group’s former supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, in what is being called the “Platform Incidents” case, several news outlets reported.
The court also handed down death sentences to Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohamad El-Beltagy, Amr Zaki, Osama Yassin, Safwat Hegazy, Assem Abdel Majed, and Mohamad Abdel Maqsoud who are also members of the organization.
37 defendants received sentences of life imprisonment, six got 15 years in prison, and seven 10 years imprisonment. 21 others were acquitted.
The “Platform Incidents” case revolved around allegations that the defendants had committed serious crimes, including involvement in an illegal group, participating in violent acts, and committing murder.
Six defendants faced charges of assuming the leadership of a group in July 2013 that advocated the “disruption of constitutional and legal provisions,” and hindering state institutions and public authorities from functioning.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution referred the case to the Supreme Emergency State Security Court back in 2021, which then forwarded the case to the Supreme Emergency State Security Court.
The court convicted the defendants of “infringing on other citizens’ personal freedom, public freedoms, and rights,” as well as “undermining national unity and social harmony.”