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April 1st, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A group of UN human rights experts has slammed Egypt government for mass trials and death sentences for hundreds of anti-government protesters.
The condemnation by a group of eight United Nations rights experts was made in a statement released on Monday; days after a court in Egypt sentenced 529 supporters of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, to death after just two hearings.
The group expressed deep concern about numerous irregularities reported during the court hearings such as limited access to lawyers, trials in absentia and the mass imposition of the death penalty.
The UN rights experts also urged Egyptian authorities to reverse the death sentences announced in trials last week, criticizing officials over the charges against the defendants.
“We are appalled by the lack of clarity of the charges under which each individual was sentenced to death,” the UN rights group said.
Some of the defendants were reportedly given the death penalty for charges of unlawful gathering, or any other offence not involving murder, which the rights experts said indicates “a clear violation of international law.”
The UN rights group called for Egyptian authorities to hold new and fair trials for the defendants in line with international law, saying that participating in anti-government protests is not a crime, and it is against human rights laws to condemn people to death for it.
The death sentences handed on March 24 sparked mass protests across the country.
International bodies and human rights groups have denounced the ruling as a grotesque example of the shortcomings of Egypt’s justice system.
Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president, was ousted on July 3, 2013.
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