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| Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie sentenced to death in Egypt | Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie sentenced to death in Egypt |
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| An Egyptian court has handed down death sentences to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and 13 others, state media has reported. | An Egyptian court has handed down death sentences to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and 13 others, state media has reported. |
| Mohammed Badie and the other key members of the group were found guilty of planning attacks against the state. | Mohammed Badie and the other key members of the group were found guilty of planning attacks against the state. |
| Badie is embroiled in several trials and has been sentenced to death before, although the sentences were later reduced to life imprisonment. | |
| Egypt's government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group in 2013. | Egypt's government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group in 2013. |
| The court referred the case to Egypt's Grand Mufti, the country's senior Sunni authority, the first step in ratifying the death sentences. | |
| The 14 were accused of setting up a control room to direct the movements of Brotherhood supporters across the country. | |
| Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death in a crackdown on Islamists following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. | Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death in a crackdown on Islamists following the removal of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. |
| Earlier this month, Egypt carried out its first execution over the violence that followed Mr Morsi's overthrow. | |
| Mr Morsi is facing several trials, some of which could result in the death sentence. | |
| Badie is a veterinary pathologist by training and assumed the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010. |