CAIRO: Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and several other prominent figures were sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for murder and inciting violence, judicial sources said, part of an ongoing crackdown on the outlawed group.

Badie has faced numerous trials and has accumulated two death sentences and five sentences to life in prison in separate cases, which still may be appealed.

Saturday’s sentencing related to an attack on a police station in the city of Port Said in 2013 in which five people were killed. Senior Brotherhood leader Mohamed El-Beltagy, cleric Safwat Hegazy, and 16 others were also sentenced to life in prison, 28 to ten years in prison and 68 acquitted. Another 76 people were given life sentences in absentia.

Charges ranged from murder and inciting violence to stealing weapons and destruction of public and private property.

After hearing their sentences, the defendants defiantly flashed the four-finger Rabaa sign synonymous with the Brotherhood’s 2013 sit-ins and chanted “down with military rule” from inside a cage in the courtroom.