Egypt sentences 22 MB members to jail

May 1st, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

A court in Egypt sentences 22 Muslim Brotherhood members to one year in jail each.

The court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 21 others to one year in jail each for what it calls insulting the judiciary.

The Brotherhood members are co-defendants of ousted President Mohamed Morsi.

The judge issued the verdicts against the Brotherhood members on Wednesday, after the defendants inside the caged dock were accused of turning their backs on him.

The ruling was made in a case that concerns an alleged prison escape by the defendants.

Morsi and senior Brotherhood member Mohamed el-Beltagy were spared the one-year jail penalty.

This is one of the three trials that Morsi is facing. The deposed Egyptian leader faces espionage charges and incitement over the killing of protesters in the two other cases.

On Monday, another Egyptian court handed down death sentences to Badie and 682 supporters of the group.

The same court also reversed the death sentences of 492 out of the 529 people it had passed in March.

The military-installed prosecutors changed most of the death penalties to life in prison sentences.

Badie has also said mass death sentences against him and other members of the group will result in the downfall of military-backed authorities.

The developments come as protests continue across Egypt against the presidential candidacy of the former army chief, Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.

On Saturday, another Egyptian court sentenced 11 supporters of Morsi to prison terms ranging from five to 88 years for participating in anti-government demonstrations following the ouster of the country’s first democratically-elected president in July 2013.

Five of the 11 individuals sentenced on Saturday were tried in absentia.

Brotherhood members and supporters have faced crackdown by the military-backed government over the past months.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been declared a “terrorist” organization by the Egyptian authorities. Commentators say the labeling justifies the punishment of any public show of support for the movement.

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