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Eight Brotherhood men given 15 years for lawyer's torture
[ARABNEWS] An Egyptian court Saturday incarceratedYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! eight men, including two Moslem Brüderbund leaders, for up to 15 years over the torture of a lawyer during the 2011 uprising against ex-president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , judicial sources said. Thousands of Moslem Brüderbund members and supporters have been incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , with hundreds receiving lengthy prison terms, in a brutal government crackdown since the army ousted elected President Muhammad Mursi last July. The court in Cairo on Saturday sentenced Brotherhood leaders Mohammed Al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy as well as an Al-Jazeera  ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... journalist and one other defendant for 15 years, the sources said. Four other defendants, including Osama Yassin, youth minister during Mursi's turbulent one-year rule, were incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for three years. The defendants were convicted of "torturing, electrocuting and sexually assaulting" a lawyer after locking him up for three days inside the office of a travel agency near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 3, when the roundabout was packed with protesters calling for Mubarak's ouster. Beltagy and Hegazy are being tried in several other cases along with other senior Brotherhood leaders, including Mursi himself. A government crackdown on Mursi supporters has left at least 1,400 people dead and more than 15,000 incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! . Hundreds have also been sentenced to death after often speedy trials. Posted by: Fred 2014-10-12 |
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