CAIRO
Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie is the second top leader of the Islamist movement to be sentenced to death in Egypt.
Badie and 182 people were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on Saturday in connection with violence that took place in the central Minya province last August.
Badie is the second Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide to be slapped with the capital punishment since the 1950s when Hassan al-Hudaybi was sentenced to death in 1954 under former president Gamal Abdel-Nasser.
The sentence against al-Hudaybi was later commuted to 25 years of imprisonment.
The 8th supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Badie, 75, took over on January 16, 2010 from former top leader Mohamed Mahdi Akef.
A professor of veterinary medicine at Beni Sueif University in central Egypt, Badie was arrested last August following the ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader. He is standing trial on multiple of charges.
On Thursday, Badie and 13 others, including several Brotherhood leaders, were referred to the grand Mufti, Egypt's highest religious authority, for advice on possible death sentences against them in connection with violence in Giza province.
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