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Mohammed Badie the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood after being detained by Egyptian security in Cairo, Egypt. (Egyptian Interior Ministry, AP)
Cairo - An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment the head of the banned Muslim Brotherhood over the killing of protesters who stormed the group's Cairo headquarters in 2013.
Three co-defendants of Mohamed Badie - the Islamist movement's spiritual leader who already faces three other life terms from other cases - were sentenced to death in the same trial.
Fourteen others, including Badie's deputies Khairat al-Shater and Saad al-Katatni, were handed life terms.
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