An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in the latest crackdown by the government against its opponents.<br /><br />They are accused of inciting violence and blocking a major road outside Cairo.<br /><br />Thirty other defendants, including the group’s leader Mohammed Badie, were sentenced to life in prison.<br /><br />Badie is already facing two death sentences. He was one of 183 Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death in a mass trial last month over violence that killed one police officer. The sentences caused outrage among western governments and rights groups.<br /><br />It comes a year after Egypt’s democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi was ousted in a military takeover by the now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,<br /><br />Earlier this week Amnesty International published a report saying there had been a “catastrophic decline in human rights” one year after the ousting of Morsi.<br /><br />Since January the Egyptian judiciary has recommended the death penalty for more than a thousand Morsi supporters.
