The Egyptian court has given death sentence to 183 members of Muslim brotherhood, they were charged for killing police officers in Cairo.

According to foreign desk report the members of Muslim brotherhood were involved in the mayhem caused in 2013, in which numbers of police officers were killed including two civilians. Court awarded death sentence to 183 members of Muslim Brotherhood out of which 34 were not present when the verdict was given. This decision of Egyptian courts has been greatly condemned worldwide.

Number of human rights organisations including Amnesty International has condemned this decision of court and has requested courts to reconsider their decision.

Amnesty international has declared this to be blatant violation of human rights. It has further appealed for free and fair trial of all alleged prisoners in accordance with international law of human rights.

This crackdown is considered as one of the major crackdown of modern history in Egypt against any democratic government. This political crackdown has taken the shape of revenge against the previous rulers of the country, it started since the demise of Muhammad Morsi, the country’s first elected president.

Since the downfall of Muhammad Morsi’s government, thousands of his supporters have been arrested and put on mass trials which show that current government is trying to repress its opponents.

Muhammad Morsi won the first elected election of 2012 in Egypt, who was a candidate of Muslim Brotherhood, however, just after a year he was ousted and arrested by military, which started protests throughout the country against the military coup and in the favour of Muhammad Morsi by his supporters.

As a reaction thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested and prisoners for their role in inciting violation and causing damage to public property.