Egypt Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide gets another life sentence

An Egyptian court has sentenced 16 people, including the supreme guide of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, to life in prison on violence-related charges.

The life sentence is the latest for Mohammed Badie, who has also been sentenced to death in separate trials since his 2013 arrest.

Charges have including inciting violence and planning attacks against the state.

The court on Thursday also sentenced 77 other defendants to 15 years imprisonment on the same charges, which include a 2013 attack on a police vehicle in a city south of Cairo.

Twelve of the suspects sentenced to life were tried in absentia; 67 of the case's 93 defendants are at large.

The verdicts can be appealed.

Authorities have cracked down on the Brotherhood since the 2013 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

Following Morsi's overthrow, Egyptian authorities killed hundreds of protesters who supported him.

Since then, courts have issued hundreds of death sentences against Morsi supporters, but many have appealed and won new trials.

Morsi and other top figures of the Brotherhood have also been put on trial.