The repercussions of sentencing hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death have mostly been negative. The positions of international officials towards what happened may give a sense of the scale of the extremely negative reaction to these events. For example, Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, expressed that he was "alarmed" by the rulings. Moreover, a number of countries released strong statements, as in the case of the German government, which went as far as demanding that the rulings be rescinded. The situation has become more complicated recently as more verdicts are returned, most notably the ban on the activities of the April 6 Movement and closing of its headquarters. Apart from the legal ramifications of these verdicts, and notwithstanding that these capital punishments were handed down for very real crimes of terrorism that are a glaring attack on the law and on society, the repercussions of these verdicts seem clearer domestically than abroad. They are likely to unfold over both the short and long terms.