Mufti rejects Badie death proposal

CAIRO: Egypt’s top religious authority has rejected the death sentence proposed for the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 13 associates for murder and violence, but was asked by a court yesterday to reconsider. Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s general guide, and the others were sentenced on June 19, but Egyptian law requires any capital sentence to be referred to Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam for an opinion before any execution. The mufti’s reports are not normally made public, but one of the three judges in the case said the mufti had said “investigations and evidence were not enough to carry out the death sentence”.

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