Egyptian court sentences Brotherhood leader Badie to life in prison

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said. 

Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases, part of Cairo’s toughest crackdown on the country’s oldest and most organised political movement. 

The judge, Mohamed Nagi Shehata, also sentenced six other defendants to death in absentia.