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Egyptian court jails 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters

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30-09-2014 | 10:48

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An Egyptian court sentenced 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Tuesday (September 30), judicial sources said, in a case related to deadly violence a year ago after the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

All were found guilty of killing 30 people and intending to kill others in Cairo on October 6, 2013, when more than 50 people died in clashes across the country between Morsi opponents and supporters.

Judge Mohamed Ali al-Faqi gave 63 of the defendants 15 years in jail and five others 10 years.

"Punishing the defendants, except for Mohamed Khaled Abdel Aal Younes, Omar Abdullah Mohamed Abdullah, Saad Ahmed Saad Ghanima, Mohamed Mahmoud Taha Ahmed Ali and Omar Ezzat Naseef Haddad, to prison for fifteen years with a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds for the crimes they were charged with and for all criminal expenses," al-Faqi told the court.

International and Egyptian rights groups have expressed alarm over an increasingly broad crackdown on dissent by authorities since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power in July 2013.

Thousands of Brotherhood supporters are in jail and the state crackdown over the past year has expanded to include liberal and secular activists who played a leading role in the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

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