Egypt Court Sentences 95 Brotherhood Members To Life In Prison
KABUL: (Middle East Press) An Egyptian court has sentenced 95 Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison over their alleged role in anti-government protests in 2013, Press TV reports.
The court sentenced Brotherhood leaders Mohamed Badie, Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy and other prominent Brotherhood figures on Saturday.
The verdict was announced at a police academy courthouse on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo.
At least 76 of the convicts were sentenced in absentia.
In addition to that, presiding judge Mohamed al-Saaeed also sentenced 28 members of Brotherhood to ten years in jail each.
Egyptian judicial sources say the accused were found guilty of inciting violence and storming a police station during street protests in the Suez Canal city of Port Said more than two years ago. The incident in August 2013 came days after the army ousted Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president.
