Rights campaigners and lawyers described Monday's ruling as the biggest mass death penalty handed out in Egypt's modern history. The Muslim Brotherhood's leader and 682 others went on trial on Tuesday in the same court.
"The mass imposition of the death penalty after a trial rife with procedural irregularities is in breach of international human rights law," UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing in Geneva.
Earlier, an Egyptian court put the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood's top leader Mohamed Badie and 682 others on trial on charges including killing, their lawyer said, dealing another blow to supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi.
The trial comes a day after the same court in Minya Province condemned 529 members of the group to death for murder and other offenses, in what was described by rights groups as the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt's modern history.
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