On Saturday 24th of January, Egypt's Court of Cassation has ordered a retrial of 152 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, including 37 sentenced to death in a mass trial that had sparked international condemnation.
Saturday's ruling came less than a year after a lower court in the southern province of Minya trailed 529 members of the Brotherhood - the movement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi - to death and sentenced 152, 37 from them sentenced to death last March accused of attacking a police station and killing an officer in August 2013.
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