Here’s the world news you missed while watching the World Cup
1. Egypt
Over the weekend, a court in Minya confirmed death sentences for 183 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the group’s leader, Mohamed al-Badie, for allegedly attacking a police station in mid-August and killing two police officers. The death sentence had been recommended for 683 members of the group in April by the judge presiding over the case, according to Human Rights Watch.
On Monday, three Al-Jazeera journalists were given seven-year jail sentences, and protesters were arrested in Cairo after defying a repressive protest law passed in November last year.
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