{A court in Egypt has overturned death sentences given to 36 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, including its spiritual leader Mohammad Badie.}<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Court of Cassation gave no reason on Wednesday for ordering a retrial.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people have been sentenced to death since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi two years ago.<\/p>\n
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”.<\/p>\n
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.
\nLightning trial<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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