Egyptian court sentences Brotherhood leader Badie to life in prison

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

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

Badie was charged with killing at least nine people and inciting violence that injured 21 others in clashes near a mosque in Giza in 2013.