TEMPO.CO, Cairo - An Egyptian court sentenced 68 pro-Morsi demonstrators to 15 years of prison over protest clashes. They are also sentenced for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
The defendants were accused of taking part in street violence on October 2013. They have also conducted assaults to Cairo police officers causing more than 50 demonstrators shot dead during several clashes.
"The Cairo court handed down 15-year sentences to 63 defendants and 10 years to five others," several sourcers said to a local media.
According to a media in Egypt, Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of pro-Morsi supporters to death or prison.
Previously, in another trial on Tuesday, September 30, a Cairo court sentenced nine activists to two years of prison for taking part in an unauthorized gathering. Three of them were from the April 6 movement that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, an official, Amr Ali, told AFP news agency.
Last week, a court sentenced 86 people to up to 15 years in prison on charges relating to pro-Morsi protests. Morsi himself is on trial in several cases and faces a death sentence if he is found guilty of espionage and terrorism.
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