183 men sentenced to death in Egypt
An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of killing police officers, part of a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists.
The men were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in August 2013 during the upheaval that followed the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Thirty-four men were sentenced in absentia.
