An Egypt court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of orchestrating violence following the military ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.

The Cairo Criminal Court ratified on Saturday the sentences given to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 11 other defendants.

Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata also handed death sentences to two other activists who are out of the country.

The defendants were accused of setting up “operations room” to “resist the state and spread chaos” in August 2013 after Morsi,was toppled in a military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the North African country’s current president and the then army commander, on July 3 the same year.

The court also handed life terms to 23 detained defendants, among them Mohamed Soltan, a US-Egyptian citizen who is on hunger strike, and Gehad Haddad, a former spokesman for the Brotherhood’s political arm.

The sentences can be appealed before the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest civilian court.

The military-backed administration of Sisi has blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. It has also launched a brutal crackdown on Morsi supporters, sentencing many of them to death.

The Egyptian government’s suppression of Morsi’s supporters has led to the deaths of more than 1,400 people and the arrests of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.

This is while Egypt’s former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, and a few of his senior officials have been acquitted of all charges leveled against them over the killing of protesters in the 2011 revolution.