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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - An Egyptian court has confirmed the death sentence against the Muslim Brotherhood's general guide Mohamed Badie and more than 180 others.

Lawyers said the ruling, which was confirmed on Saturday, can be overturned on appeal.

The court's decision came two months after it referred the case against Badie and hundreds of others to the state's highest religious authority, the Mufti, the first step towards imposing a death sentence.

Badie faces a second death sentence in a separate case.

The leader and scores of others had been charged for inciting violence that killed two people last summer.

Badie was one of thousands of Brotherhood supporters arrested in a deadly crackdown following the army's ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in July.

The Brotherhood has been labelled a "terror organisation" by Egyptian authorities. Its supporters have staged protests since Morsi was toppled and arrested and hundreds have been killed in clashes with security forces.

In March, the same court that sentenced Badie to death triggered an international outcry when it handed down the same sentence for 529 alleged Morsi supporters on similar charges.

The judge subsequently upheld 37 of those sentences and commuted the rest to life in prison.

Morsi is on trial for inciting the killing of opposition protesters in December 2012 outside the presidential palace.

The deposed president also faces charges of espionage in collaboration with the Palestinian movement Hamas.

*Aljazeera