Egypt: Supreme Court overturns death penalty for 149 suspected Islamists

The Court of Cassation overturned in Egypt Wednesday the death penalty for 149 people accused of the murder of 13 police officers in 2013, the same day that security forces killed hundreds of protesters demanding the return of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi dismissed by the army.
The high court ordered that the accused be retried by a court other than that which had condemned them in the first instance there is one year, but it is not possible to know the motivations of this judgment of the Supreme Court as an it is not made public, said officials of Justice.
Since the army deposed July 3, 2013 the first democratically elected president in Egypt, the courts sentenced to death in the trial hundreds of Islamists, including Morsi himself, during mass summary trials strongly criticized UN who called them “unprecedented in recent history” of the world.
On 3 July 2013 the army chief at the time, General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi-which elected president in 2014 in the absence of any oppositional, was deposed and arrest President Morsi, a member of the Brothers Muslims. The Islamist Brotherhood had won every election since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in early 2011 after a popular revolt in line with the Arab Spring.
In the months that followed, police and soldiers killed hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators and imprisoned thousands of supporters, including almost all of the frames of the Muslim Brotherhood.
On 14 August 2013, some 700 pro-Morsi protesters were killed within hours in central Cairo, a “crime against humanity as possible,” according to the advocacy organization Human Rights Human Rights Watch.
That evening, 13 police officers were killed by an angry mob in an attack on a police station in a neighborhood of Cairo, Kerdassa, deemed to be an Islamist stronghold.