Cairo: An Egyptian court yesterday condemned to death Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 13 other senior members of the banned movement, state media and lawyers said.
The 14 members of the Brotherhood, which was declared a “terrorist organisation” in 2013, were found guilty of “plotting attacks aimed at sowing chaos” across the country, state news agency Mena reported.
The court found Badie and his co-defendants had set up an “operations room” to prepare attacks against the state in the weeks after the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July 2013.
SANA’A: Yemen’s dominant Houthi militia group yesterday released former Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and his cabinet ministers after nearly two months under house arrest, government spokesman Rajeh Badi said.
State news agency Saba reported that Bahah, whose government resigned in January after the Houthis captured Yemen’s presidential palace, had left Sana’a. A source close to Bahah said he was on his way to Saudi Arabia and from there he would go on to New York where his family lives.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Bahah said the lifting of the house arrest was a goodwill gesture to ease talks on Yemen’s political transition. But he said he had no intention of resuming his post.
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