Cairo: The head of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammad Badie, was on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment for inciting violence, in the latest ruling against him since the army removed the Islamist group from power over two years ago.
The Cairo Criminal Court also dealt the same punishment to 94 others in the case, including Brotherhood leaders Mohammad Al Beltaji and Safwat Hejazi.
Seventy-six of the convicts were tried in absentia.
The court sentenced 28 co-defendants to 10 years in prison each while 68 others were acquitted.
Badie, 72, has already been sentenced to death in two separate cases and is being tried on multiple charges in other cases.
All the rulings can be appealed.
The case is connected to an attack on a police station in the Mediterranean city of Port Saeed in August 2013, which left five people dead.
The attack came amid a wave of deadly violence across Egypt after security forces dispersed two sit-ins by backers of toppled president Mohammad Mursi, a Brotherhood leader. Months after Mursi’s toppling, Egyptian authorities listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.
Hundreds of Mursi’s comrades and Brotherhood loyalists have since been given heavy prison terms.
