The biggest mass death sentence in recent history marks another escalation in the ruthless efforts of the US-backed military junta in Egypt to annihilate its political opponents.

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Yesterday an Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to death. The biggest mass death sentence in recent history marks another escalation in the ruthless efforts of the US-backed military junta in Egypt to annihilate its political opponents and drown the Egyptian revolution in blood.

Since the July 3, 2013 coup—carried out amidst mass protests against MB President Mohamed Mursi—the military junta has violently attacked sit-ins, demonstrations and strikes, killing at least 1,400 people and jailing more than 16,000. It has banned the MB, Egypt’s largest Islamist organization, issued an anti-protest law and pushed through a constitution enshrining the army’s dominant role in society.


Must be the season for murderous overreach. This is bound to produce pushback, but how much and by whom remains to be seen.

Must be the season for murderous overreach. This is bound to produce pushback, but how much and by whom remains to be seen.

I heard on US propaganda this morning that the junta was going to ask the head Egyptian Muslim cleric for a ruling on the mass death sentences. Not sure what that will mean - if it's true...