Life in prison carries a sentence of 25 years in jail in Egypt.
The court also acquitted three from charges of espionage in the same case.
The verdicts are not final and can be appealed.
| *sigh* Ten years from now they’ll finally have wended their way through the entire appeals process to the final verdict, whoever they are. But in the meantime they’ll be put on trial for other things, and so still be wending through. Still, they’ll be living in jail the entire time, so it’s like having been sentenced to life imprisonment... |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) from 2012 to 2018.
The defendants allegedly agreed to supply ISIS’ members within the country with necessary funding and information about vital institutions — specifically Gargoub Maritime Port, and Ramses and Sidi Gaber Train Stations — in order to attack them.
These communications were conducted through Telegram — a messaging application — the prosecution explained.
The prosecution also charged the defendants with financing a terrorist group to commit an act of terrorism, the statement said, as they collected, received, possessed, supplied, transferred, and provided money and information to ISIS with the intention of using them to commit terrorist crimes.