Philippine court finds massacre masterminds guilty of 57 murders

Some of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre are escorted to attend the promulgation of the case, inside a prison facility in Taguig City, Philippines, in this December 19, 2019 handout picture. Supreme Court of the Philippines - Public Information Office (SC-PIO) / Handout via REUTERS

MANILA (Reuters) - A Philippine court found top members of a political clan guilty on Thursday of masterminding a 2009 massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the country's worst single instance of election violence.

Members of three generations of the influential Ampatuan family were among those sentenced to life imprisonment on multiple counts of murder, in a complicated verdict involving 101 defendants.