An Egyptian court on Monday upheld the death sentences of 12 Muslim Brotherhood figures as part of a mass trial of hundreds charged in anti-government demonstrations in 2013.
After the military’s overthrow of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, his Muslim Brotherhood-aligned supporters staged sit-ins at Cairo’s Rabaa and al-Nadha squares. Egyptian security forces in August 2013 opened fire on the protesters to disperse the crowds, killing at least 900 people and wounding thousands, according to Amnesty International.
