Egypt’s Court of Cassation accepted on Thursday an appeal by Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 11 others to death sentences they received in April over charges of inciting violence following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Badie was sentenced, along with 13 others, to death by the Cairo Criminal Court over charges of running a taskforce that plotted violence against security forces and chaos during the deadly dispersal of Morsi supporters at the Rabaa al-Adaweya Square sit-in.
Twenty-seven were also granted retrial and had their life sentences cancelled.
Badie had been sentenced to multiple death and life sentences over charges related to the turmoil that followed Morsi’s removal, but is being retried in many of those cases.
