The court in Egypt sentenced 10 people to death and more than 50 to life in prison on charges of supporting or carrying out attacks on security forces and sabotaging state infrastructure.

British media report that the Egyptian Prosecutor's Office linked the attacks in Cairo between 2013 and 2015 with the movement Muslim Brotherhood, which is now banned in the country.

The court sent a request to the Egyptian supreme authority, The Grand Mufti, to approve the execution in January.

Amnesty International said the mass trial, which involved more than 200 defendants, was "extremely unfair" and called for the sentences to be lifted.

The Muslim Brotherhood has won several elections in Egypt, including those when their candidate Mohamed Morsi won the presidential election. A year later, after mass demonstrations, he was ousted in a military coup and placed under house arrest.

The movement was subsequently banned in Egypt and declared a terrorist organization.