... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
equipment to a satellite channel broadcasting demonstrations backing ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Salah Abdel Maqsud, who was tried in his absence because he is overseas, was information minister in Morsi's government.
He was sentenced along with another official from state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
. The pair were also fined 3.5 million Egyptian pounds ($500,000, 400,000 euros), a court official said.
The two defendants were found guilty of illegally benefiting from state funds and of offering the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
equipment for use by the satellite channel on the day of Morsi's overthrow on July 3 last year.
Prosecutors said the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
equipment was later reported stolen, and the court ordered the two defendants to reimburse the government an additional 3.5 million Egyptian pounds.
Egyptian media reports said the equipment was offered to 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...
television.
The Egyptian authorities consider the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i channel as the mouthpiece of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund movement, accusing it of biased reporting on the Islamist's ouster which came after mass street protests against his one-year rule.
Morsi was tossed by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and since then the government has launched a brutal crackdown against his supporters.
At least 1,400 people have been killed and thousands imprisoned.
Morsi and his aides are facing several trials and could face the death sentence if convicted.