• 05:25
  • Friday ,07 August 2015
العربية

Egypt court jails 25 members of Muslim Brotherhood

By-thestatesman

Copts and Poliltical Islam

00:08

Friday ,07 August 2015

Egypt court jails 25 members of Muslim Brotherhood

An Egyptian court has sentenced 25 Muslim Brotherhood members to three years in prison for inciting violence and participating in anti-regime protests in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag.An Egyptian court has sentenced 25 Muslim Brotherhood members to three years in prison for inciting violence and participating in anti-regime protests in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag.

Among the convicted, 11 defendants were arrested last year during the protests, while 14 others were sentenced in absentia.
 
The defendants have also been charged of belonging to an outlaw group and spreading the beliefs of the Brotherhood, among others.
 
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters since Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi's ouster in 2013.
 
Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie along with 100 other leaders were sentenced in June to death for escaping from prison in 2011.
 
Badie and Morsi were also sentenced to life in prison for espionage.