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Egypt sentences more Brotherhood members to jail

Tuesday, 09 February 2016 6:02 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 09 February 2016 6:03 PM ]

Muslim Brotherhood defendants stand behind the bars during a mass trial, along with Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi (unseen), in Cairo, Egypt, June 16, 2015. (AFP Photo)

Courts in Egypt handed hefty sentences Tuesday to dozens of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

One court in the Nile Delta province of Sharqia, to the northeast of the capital, Cairo, handed life-in-prison sentences to 19 members and supporters of the Brotherhood on charges related to alleged incitement of violence against state institutions.

The same court handed similar sentences to two protesters who had taken part in anti-government demonstrations, five-year terms to three others, and three-year jail terms to 37 more demonstrators over their alleged role in violence at Zaqaziq University in Sharqia.

A different court in Sharqia sentenced three senior members of the banned Brotherhood organization to three years in prison. One of the sentenced prisoners was a former aide to Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically-elected president of Egypt who was ousted in a coup in July 2013.

Elsewhere in Gharbiya, to the northwest of Cairo, also in Nile Delta, another court sentenced four pro-Brotherhood activists to three years in jail for taking part in anti-government protests. The court also fined each about 6,000 USD.

Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sentenced to death since 2013. Morsi, himself has been sentenced to death.

The AFP file photo shows Egypt's first democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi in court behind bars.

Thousands of anti-government activists, mainly from the Muslim Brotherhood and demonstrators taking part in protests organized by the group have been jailed by civilian and military courts in mass trials in Egypt.

Hundreds more have been killed in police raids on anti-government demonstrations on city streets and university campuses.

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