By Hagar al-Dosoki
CAIRO
A leading legal expert on Saturday described a mass death sentence against 183 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi as the "largest" in Egypt's history.
"I haven't heard about such a mass death sentence in Egypt's modern history," Tarek al-Beshri told Anadolu Agency.
An Egyptian court in the central province of Minya on Saturday confirmed death sentences for the 183 people, including Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie.
The defendants were among a group of 683 people, who were referred to the grand mufti, Egypt's highest religious authority, in April to seek his advice on possible death sentences against them.
The court also slapped four defendants, including two women, with life sentences and acquitted the remaining 496 defendants.
The defendants were charged of committing violence, attacking two police stations in Minya and murdering a policeman in August last year following the forcible dispersal of two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo, in which hundreds were killed.
"How can a judge be so sure that all those people had committed the crime?" al-Beshri asked.
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