An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to death over assaulting and murdering police last year, state TV reported. Minya Criminal Court accused the defendants, including Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie, of involvement in murdering policemen deliberately at Al-Adwa town in the Upper Egyptian province. The same court sentenced 37 Brotherhood members and supporters to death and ordered life imprisonment of 492 others in a similar case related to last year's violence in the town of Matay in Minya. The violent incidents took place following the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi by the military last July.