An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 11 members of the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to 15 years in prison over charges of violence in 2013, state-run Ahram newspaper reported.
The defendants were accused of gathering to jeopardize citizens’ lives and inciting public disorder, cutting the roads and resisting the policemen who were tasked with dispersing a sit-in in the Giza province to support the late president Mohamed Morsi, the judge read.
The court also fined them more than 2 million U.S. dollars for causing damage in the country’s public zoo, public park, the headquarters of the province and a nearby engineering faculty.
The case originally involved 286 people on the same accusations, but the majority was acquitted in earlier trials, the report added.
Since the ouster of Morsi in 2013 by the army in response to mass protests against his rule, the county has been fighting waves of anti-security attacks that killed hundreds of police and army men.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Brotherhood members, including its top leaders, have been in trials over charges of murder, violence and espionage.
