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Egypt courts convict 170 in mass trials

By Hamza Hendawi
Published May 18, 2014 7:37pm ET
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Egypt courts convict 170 in mass trials
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie speaks before judge after getting out of a defendant cage during his trial in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 18, 2014. The judge said he would announce a verdict on June 7 in a case involving Badie and 47 other defendants charged with cutting off a major road north of Cairo as part of a wave of post-Morsi protests last summer. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gamil) | Ahmed Gamil

CAIRO (AP) — A pair of Egyptian courts on Sunday convicted 170 suspected supporters of toppled President Mohammed Morsi on charges related to violent attacks last year, the country’s latest mass trials ahead of this month’s presidential elections.

The convictions in the courts in Cairo and in the Nile Delta city of Kafr el-Sheikh are the latest in a series over recent months that saw hundreds of people prosecutors identified as Morsi supporters sentenced to death or imprisonment.

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