A judge in Egypt has sentenced 683 people – including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie – to death in a mass trial, lawyers say.
The defendants faced charges over an attack on a police station in Minya in 2013 in which a policeman was killed.
The judge also reversed 492 death sentences out of 529 passed in March, commuting most to life in prison.
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Correspondents said several female relatives waiting outside the courtroom fainted on hearing news of the verdict.
Source: BBC NEWS