Egypt court sentences 528 people to death

A court in Egypt has sentenced to death 528 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. They were convicted of charges including murdering a policeman and attacks on people and property.

The verdicts are subject to appeal and would likely be overturned, rights lawyers said. But they said the swiftness and harshness of the rulings on such a large scale deepened concerns that Egypt’s courts have been politicized and that due process is being swept away amid a monthslong crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood supporters since the military removed the president last summer.

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