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Brotherhood boss gets fourth life sentence

The Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Mohamed Badie, has been handed a fourth life sentence in prison by an Egyptian court.

senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed al-Beltagy
An Egyptian court has sentenced Muslim Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badie, to life imprisonment. (AAP)

An Egyptian court has sentenced to life imprisonment the head of the banned Muslim Brotherhood over the killing of protesters who stormed the group's Cairo headquarters in 2013.

Three co-defendants of Mohamed Badie - the Islamist movement's spiritual leader who already faces three other life terms from other cases - were sentenced to death in the same trial.

Fourteen others, including Badie's deputies Khairat al-Shater and Saad al-Katatni, were handed life terms.

All were convicted on charges of "murder" and "incitement to murder" as well as possessing arms, but can appeal the verdicts.

Badie and the other defendants present in court for the verdict denounced the sentence and shouted: "Down with military rule".

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On June 30, 2013, protesters stormed and torched the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood as millions took to the streets of Egypt demanding the resignation of president Mohamed Morsi.

Morsi, who belongs to the Brotherhood, was ousted just days later by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after one year in office.

Prosecutors said 12 protesters were killed when they clashed with Morsi supporters.

Badie has already been sentenced by three separate courts to three life terms, and he was also handed two death sentences that were later overturned on appeal.


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