CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, general guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and seven others to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence during protests last year, judicial sources said.
Badie had already been sentenced to death and received a life sentence in other cases, part of Cairo's toughest crackdown - widely criticised by human rights groups - on the country's oldest and most organised Islamist movement.
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