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08/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, Cairo Court Sentences 75 to Death

Dozens of protestors arrested following 2013’s coup in Egypt are sentenced to death

Dozens of protestors arrested following 2013’s coup in Egypt are sentenced to death penalty.

A court in Cairo today confirmed death sentences for seventy five of those on trial, among them senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood. Dozens of others received life sentences.

Also in the programme: Unrest in the southern Iraqi city of Basra; and should Walmart stop selling shirts branded with the Soviet hammer and sickle?

(Image: Cairo Criminal Court in Cairo, Egypt, on 8th September 2018, where hundreds of detainees received sentences for 2013 protests supporting the now-deposed Muslim Brotherhood government. Credit: Islam Safwat/NurPhoto /Getty Images)

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