Egypt's appeals court overturned Wednesday the death sentence on former Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie and 136 others, in the case known as the 'Minya incidents', Al Bawaba News reported. The court overturned the death penalties and life sentences on the 136 defendants and ordered a retrial before a different court. The defense had appealed for the verdict to be overturned over flaws in the previous trial's procedures, such as the absence of lawyers and sentencing a child to death in violation of Egypt's Child law. On June 21 2014, Minya criminal court had sentenced the 136 defendants to death and life in prison, over charges of storming Al Adwa police station in Minya, assaulting officers and soldiers, inciting violence, damaging public property, joining a terrorist organization and endangering National Unity. In August 2013, militants had attacked Al Adwa police station in Minya, stolen property and assaulted officers and soldiers, in response to the dispersal of the MB's sit-ins in Cairo and Giza.
