[Al Ahram] Egypt's Suez military court sentenced on Monday Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammed Mongey to ten years of imprisonment on charges of inciting violence and vandalising military property in August.Egypt's interim government has launched a crackdown on the 85-year-old Islamist group following the popularly-backed military ouster of 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...
-- who hails from the Brotherhood -- in July.
Hundreds of the group's leaders and members have been nabbed
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
since Morsi's ouster.
The arrest campaign widened after 14 August, when security forces forcibly dispersed the two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo and Giza, leaving hundreds dead and over a thousand injured.
Many of the incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Moslem Brüderbund leaders and members face charges of inciting violence during festivities that took place in the months leading up to Morsi's ouster.
Controversial exceptions allowing military trials for civilians have remained a topic of debate during the transitional period.
Earlier in September, a Suez military court handed down a life sentence to a Moslem Brüderbund member and sentenced 50 others to jail on charges of attacking military soldiers.