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November 24th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda An appeals court in Egypt has upheld prison sentences for at least 85 student protesters convicted of taking part in demonstrations in support of ousted president, Mohammed Morsi.
The court in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, confirmed the students’ jail terms of up to five years on Sunday.
The “court of appeals confirmed the verdict against 85 students, including five female students…for violent clashes in al-Azhar University,” defense lawyer, Mukhtar Mounir, who represented nine of the defendants, said after the court session.
Egypt’s university campuses have witnessed regular anti-government demonstrations since the military ouster of the country’s first democratically-elected president in July 2013 in a military coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the country’s current president and then army commander.
More than 1,000 students have been arrested since the government launched a crackdown on pro-Morsi supporters last year, many of whom have been handed harsh jail terms in mass trials.
Officials also say that more than 500 students have been expelled or suspended for alleged “rioting.”
The current Egyptian government has come under mounting pressure from human rights groups over harsh crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Rights groups say the army’s crackdown on the supporters of Morsi has led to the death of over 1,400 people and the arrest of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.
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