{A court in Egypt has overturned death sentences given to 36 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, including its spiritual leader Mohammad Badie.}
They were among 183 people condemned in connection with a 2013 attack on a police station in the central province of Minya that left two policemen dead.
The Court of Cassation gave no reason on Wednesday for ordering a retrial.
Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi two years ago.
The mass trials, along with a crackdown on Islamists that has seen more than 1,400 killed, have drawn widespread international criticism, with the UN describing them as “unprecedented”.
Mr Badie has been sentenced to death in three other cases, according to his lawyer. He is serving a life sentence in a Cairo jail given in a fifth case.
Lightning trial
The Brotherhood’s general guide was first convicted over the attack on the police station in the village of Adwa along with 682 others in April 2014, after a lightning trial that activists said severely violated the defendants’ due process rights.
{{BBC}}
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