Egypt court overturns death sentences for 149 Brotherhood supporters

Cairo - The court had also sentenced 37 people to death in absentia, but they would have to hand themselves in for a retrial.

An Egyptian appeals court overturned on Wednesday death sentences for 149 Brotherhood supporters accused of killing policemen in a mob attack on their station, a judicial source said.
The court had also sentenced 37 people to death in absentia, but they would have to hand themselves in for a retrial. 
The court ordered a retrial for the defendants over the attack, which killed 13 policemen near Cairo on August 14, 2013, the day police shot dead hundreds of demonstrators in the capital.

• MENA