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.
