Egyptian court orders retrial for 37 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death

An Egyptian court ordered on Saturday that 37 Muslim Brotherhood members sentenced to death, along with 115 others sentenced to life in prison, should be retried following a swift mass trial last year, Reuters reports.

The March 2014 trial lasted just a few days and tried more than 500 defendants, some in absentia. It gained widespread criticism from Western countries.

The 152 slated to stand retrial again face charges that they attacked government forces trying to clear out two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps in August 2013, as Brotherhood members demonstrated against President Mohamed Mursi's ousting by the military. The clashes left several hundred dead.

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