Menya court upholds death sentence against 12 in Matay case

CAIRO – 7 August 2017: Menya Criminal Court upheld the death sentence against 12 defendants of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group on chargers of breaking into the Matay police station and killing an officer on August 15, 2013.

Meanwhile, the court also issued a life sentence against 157 defendants and acquitted 227 other defendants of charges of violent acts committed in the Matay police station, in the aftermath of the police raid on a MB camps at Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda Squares.

The trial was held amid tight security measures.

Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated citizens broke into the Matay police station during the chaos that followed the dispersal of Rabaa and Nahda sit-ins in Cairo after the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in 2013.