--- title: Mass Death Sentence in Egypt Shows Courts No Longer Independent description: Egypt's judiciary shows its colors: While one court condemns 683 more defendants to death, another bans a group crucial to Tahrir Square canonical: https://time.com/79530/egypt-mass-death-sentence-courts-muslim-brotherhood/ author: Karl Vick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-28T19:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:32:18.461Z article:section: World og:title: Day of suppressive rulings shows Egyptian courts no longer independent og:description: Judiciary falls into line with security state with latest mass death sentence and ban of Tahrir group og:url: https://time.com/79530/egypt-mass-death-sentence-courts-muslim-brotherhood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt702d5ef0ea1d26b7/69868cdde8524b54446029c8/egypt-court-death-sentence-mourners.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Egypt Court Death Sentence Mourners og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Day of suppressive rulings shows Egyptian courts no longer independent twitter:description: Judiciary falls into line with security state with latest mass death sentence and ban of Tahrir group twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt702d5ef0ea1d26b7/69868cdde8524b54446029c8/egypt-court-death-sentence-mourners.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Egypt's Courts Mock Justice With More Mass Death Sentences > Sponsored content. 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Relatives and families of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi react after hearing the sentence, in front of the court in Minya, south of Cairo, Apr. 28, 2014.Mohamed Abd El Ghany—Reuters  by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Editor at Large Apr 28, 2014 7:01 PM UTC **Correction appended, May 1 2014** Egyptians will go to the polls at the end of May to elect a president, but Monday brought a flurry of reminders that democracy is about more than what happens at the ballot box. The courts that are supposed to provide a check on executive power were showcasing their apparently complete alignment with Egypt’s security state. The same Egyptian judge who last month sentenced to death 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters [condemned another 683](http://time.com/78955/egypt-court-death-sentences-muslim-brotherhood/) to the gallows in Minya, including the organization’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie. Meanwhile, the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters [banned the April 6 Movement](http://madamasr.com/content/court-bans-april-6-activities), a grassroots organization instrumental in the 2011 revolution that Egypt’s military last year seized power ostensibly to protect. The behavior of the Egyptian courts has given some observers cause for concern. “The reality is that on one side you have this legal system which is not fit for purpose,” says Massoud Shadjareh, chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a political advocacy group based in London. “Then you add the political pressures being borne on the judiciary, and you’re getting these sort of messages coming across… It’s absurd. The scale of the whole thing should bring fear into the international community.” There was at least a hint that the [global opprobrium ](http://time.com/35829/egypt-529-death-sentence-muslim-brotherhood/)that greeted last month’s mass sentencing may have had some impact. After condemning the 683 to death, the court revisited the 529 sentenced to death last month, [commuting the sentences](http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/99979/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATED-Egypt-sentences--Morsi-supporters-to-death.aspx) of all but 37 defendants to life in prison. But the convictions remained contaminated by the trial – a single day, with no defense allowed – as well as upstaged by the record-breaking mass sentence in the second case. “The judge did not give the lawyers any time to study the case,” says Ahmed Ban, an analyst for the Nile Center for Political and Strategic Studies and former Brotherhood member. “He didn’t listen to witnesses.” Shadjareh notes that with Monday’s verdict, more than 1,100 Egyptians have been convicted for the death of a single policeman in Minya, while no security official has been charged for the [more than 1,000 civilians killed](http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/03/24/egypt-s-unprecedented-instability-by-numbers/h5j3?reloadFlag=1) across Egypt since the military dissolved the elected government dominated by the Brotherhood in July. Both Minya trials grew out of riots that broke out across Egypt in August, after Egyptian forces mounted an [assault on a Brotherhood sit-in ](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE97C09A20130814)on a Cairo street, killing hundreds. The massacre heralded a crackdown that appears to involve every major state institution, including courts which, even during decades of dictatorship, retained a reputation for independence. During the rule of President Hosni Mubarak and his predecessors, Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser, “the judiciary sometimes acted as a brake on the government’s most authoritarian impulses,” Nathan J. Brown and Michelle Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [recently wrote](http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/04/02/egypt-s-judges-join-in/h6tf), “ Now, all the instruments of the Egyptian state seem fully on board. Whereas Nasser had to go to the trouble of setting up kangaroo courts, today there is no need.” Judges have [outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/muslim-brotherhood-egyptian-court), the Palestinian militant group [Hamas](http://time.com/12249/gazas-isolation-grows-as-egyptian-court-outlaws-hamas/), and now the liberal April 6 Movement, named for the date of a planned 2008 public strike in an industrial town that grew into a nationwide protest movement. Appeals against these rulings are theoretically available, but apparently are not to be attempted. A delegate from the online human rights group Avaaz was detained and deported earlier this month while trying to coordinate a meeting with Egypt’s Grand Mufti, the state official who must review every death sentence. The delegate [carried a petition signed by 1.1 million people](https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press%5Fid=566) urging the Mufti to set aside the 529 death sentences. “Look not at just what these cases mean individually, but what it means overall for Egypt,” says Sam Barratt, a spokesman for [Avaaz.org](http://www.avaaz.org/en/index.php). “Our deeper concern is what this means to the direction of Egypt, and what that could mean to the region for an increasingly disenfranchised group of individuals who have been shown no recourse but violence.” Analysts say the fate of Badie, the Supreme Guide, may be crucial. If his sentence is carried out, Egyptian authorities will have executed the [eighth holder of the office ](http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-badie-shadows-centre-stage-102657064.html)created by Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian schoolteacher [who established ](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2131559,00.html)the organization as a grassroots effort to apply the imperatives of Islam to modern government. The Supreme Guide holds nominal sway over Brotherhood branches in other nations, but his primary authority has been in Egypt, where for decades the group remained the only formidable organized opposition to the secular security state held in place by the nation’s powerful military. And indeed Badie and his aides in the Guide’s office at times appeared to govern Egypt jointly with Mohamed Morsi, the Brotherhood official narrowly elected president in 2012, under the banner of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, until the July 3 coup. Morsi’s own trial is[ scheduled to resume May 6](http://www.turkishpress.com/news/403411/). The charges he faces include incitement to murder and insulting the judiciary. If Egypt’s courts carry on acting as they have done, the outcome is unlikely to be a surprise. **Correction:** An earlier version of this story referred to the Islamic Human Rights Commission as a human rights group. The organization also operates politically, and has voiced support for the Lebanese militant group Hizballah. 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