{"id":8333,"date":"2014-03-23T19:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8333"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T19:41:34","slug":"egypt-sentences-26-members-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/egypt-sentences-26-members-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt sentences 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court sentenced 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of forming a &#8220;terrorist cell&#8221; aimed at attacking the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>The 26 defendants have been sentenced in absentia. Meanwhile, the Northern Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a 27th defendant to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations include forming a terrorist cell in Cairo, Dakahliya, and Dammietta in order to target ships in the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian Grand Mufti Shawki Ibrahim ratified the death sentence on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Egyptian security forces have escalated their crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, the major opponent of the July 3 military coup, handing down jail sentences for protesters totalling 945 years, and fines exceeding EGP 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/news\/africa\/10420-egypt-sentences-26-member-of-the-muslim-brotherhood-to-death\">Middle East Monitor\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court sentenced 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of forming a &#8220;terrorist cell&#8221; aimed at attacking the Suez Canal. The 26 defendants have been sentenced in absentia. Meanwhile, the Northern Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a 27th defendant to 15 years in prison. The accusations include forming a terrorist cell &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,2],"tags":[394,1427,349,395,393,163],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-audio-clips","category-news-and-analysis","tag-death","tag-egypt","tag-middle-east-2","tag-mufti","tag-muslims-brotherhood","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8336,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions\/8336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}