Egyptian court sentences 183 defendants to death for killing policemen

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced at least 183 people to death for storming Kerdasa Police Station in Giza governorate and killing 14 policemen in the aftermath of dispersal of the pro-Mohamed Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Nahd in 2013.
The court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Nagy Shehata, sentenced a defendant to 10 years in jail, acquitted two others, and dropped charges against two others as they had died.
The court had referred the papers of defendants last December to the Mufti, one of the country's highest officials in Islamic affairs, asking for his opinion on hanging them.
According to investigations made by the Public Prosecution, the defendants committed crimes of terrorism, murder, vandalism of public properties and theft as well as others.
The attackers, the prosecution said, seized weapons and attacked policemen brutally at the police station.
Today's verdict came following several mass trials in Egypt that have sparked a wid-scale international outcry.