Egpytian Justice

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Harsh sentences have been handed down against members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Source

Nearly 683 have been sentenced to death, with 37 others having had a similar sentence confirmed -- over 700 in total.

So is it harsh justice so as to squelch a possible civil war, or payback time....or a little of both?

[Fragony]

Pretty damn rediculous, not that I like them, but it doesn't go beyond not calling an ambulance. Killing so many is madness, yay arab spring.

[HoreTore]

The old regime is back with a vengeance.

Fragony is still living with severe delusions.

[Fragony]

The old regime is back with a vengeance.

Fragony is still living with severe delusions.

Yeah, I am the one who believed in such a thing as an arab spring, I am way too cynical for that. Only leftist cheer-monkeys saw any change they could believe in. The rest of us knew better than that.

[Papewaio]

Whoa time out this isn't the spring. It's the old school hard line back in power... It's the group that is anti-spring with the death sentences.

Btw very crafty in the sentencing. Life is too harsh, but since it is a commute from a death sentence it isn't so bad now...

[Husar]

There were already 5xx sentenced to death about a month ago or so, but their sentences were now turned into life in prison.
Of course it's ridiculous, they are all blamed for the deaths of 2 policemen during some protest or so.

[HoreTore]

There were already 5xx sentenced to death about a month ago or so, but their sentences were now turned into life in prison.
Of course it's ridiculous, they are all blamed for the deaths of 2 policemen during some protest or so.

Most of them will probably be out in a few years tops, and I see it as highly unlikely that the death sentences will actually be carried out. Heck, if they did, it would be a massacre.

Still, the message sent by the government is crystal clear. They have not come to protect Egyptian democracy from the Brotherhood, they have come to spread terror and crush any resistance mercilessly, old-school style.

One would think that the good ol' days of the Cold War despots were at an end as they can no longer find a strong ally in the US or USSR; sadly it seems we won't be rid of these imbeciles for some time yet.

[Kadagar_AV]

I wouldnt mind a source?

[Husar]

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...510336199.html

Minya, Egypt - An Egyptian judge has sentenced 683 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death, including the group's supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, and confirmed the death sentences of 37 of 529 alleged supporters previously condemned.