Originally published in WND
An Egyptian court in the southern city of Minya sentenced 683 people to death Monday in the most recent of a series of mass trials that have alarmed the international community, nine months after a military coup ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
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The ruling came one month after 529 people were sentenced to death in a similar mass trial in the same courtroom, and it coincided with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy’s visit to Washington to meet with Secretary of State John F Kerry in an effort to smooth relations between the United States and one of its most significant Middle East allies.
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The Obama administration quickly condemned the ruling, saying that it defied “even the most basic standards of international justice.”
