Egypt Charges 215 MB Supporters of Forming Militant Group

Egypt's public prosecutor said on Sunday he had referred 215 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to trial on charges of forming a militant group, the latest move in a sustained crackdown by authorities on Islamists. Egypt has mounted one of the biggest crackdowns in its modern history on the Brotherhood following the army's overthrow of the country’s first freely elected civilian President Mohamed Morsi, the country's first freely-elected president, in 2013 after mass...

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