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| Egypt Courts Jail More Than 160 Morsi Backers | |
| 2014-05-19 | |
| [AnNahar] An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 126 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... to 10 years in prison each in a mass trial over protest violence, judicial sources said. Another court, in Cairo, sentenced a further 37 alleged Morsi supporters to 15 years in prison for trying to set off bombs during a protest at a metro station last year. The 126 found guilty in the northern province of Kafr El-Sheikh were accused of rioting and attacking security forces on August 16, two days after police potted hundreds of Morsi supporters in the capital.
The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Morsi supporters and held mass trials since his ouster in July last year. The court in Kafr El-Sheikh also sentenced six other people to a year in prison each, although the charges against them were not immediately available. Judicial sources said that all those convicted in Kafr El-Sheikh on Sunday were also fined 1,000 Egyptian pounds (about $143, 111 euros) each. A relentless crackdown on Morsi's supporters has killed more than 1,400 people, and hundreds have been sentenced to death after speedy trials. | |
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