57 Islamists sentenced from 7 years to life term in Egypt

Fifty seven members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood Group were today sentenced from seven years to life in prison by an Egyptian court for attacking a police station and committing other violent acts in August 2013.
While 36 were sentenced in abstentia to life in prison, 21 others, including leader Galal Abdel Sadek, were sentenced from 7 to 15 years in prison. The 21 defendants were present during the trial.
Two others were acquitted in the case involving for an attack on a police station and for committing violent acts in the upper Egyptian city of Assiut during August 2013 following the dispersal of the two Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Rabaa and Nahdaa which left hundreds dead.

Since Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi's ouster in 2013, the Egyptian government has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Ex-president Mohamed Morsi himself was sentenced to death in May along with Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of Muslim Brotherhood and over hundred Islamist leaders for a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution which toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.