CAIRO,
Egypt
An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced six people allegedly belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to death for the 2016 killing of two policemen, a judicial source said.
The court also handed down
sentences of up to 10 years in jail to seven others in the case, in which two
policemen were killed in the northern province of Sharqiya and their guns
stolen.
Five of those sentenced to death
were tried in absentia while one appeared in court in Zagazig, the capital of
Sharqiya.
The prosecution alleged that all
13 belonged to a Muslim Brotherhood cell in the province, located near Cairo.
Charges against the defendants
included murder, joining a terror group, attempting to overthrow the government
and fomenting chaos.
Authorities in Egypt outlawed
the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, after the 2013 military
overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the organization.
Under the rule of President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi, hundreds of suspected Islamists have been convicted in mass
trials that rights groups have slammed as unfair, with dozens executed in
recent years.
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