CAIRO: An Egyptian court has sentenced 14 people, including an adviser to an ousted president, to life in prison for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
The state-run Al Ahram news website reported on Thursday that out of the 14, eight were sentenced in absentia.
Thursday's verdict by the Cairo Criminal Court included 15-year-sentences that were handed down to six other defendants while one person was sentenced to 10 years. The verdicts can be appealed.
Along with Brotherhood membership, charges included possessing firearms, violating citizens' personal freedoms and disrupting constitutional provisions.
Egypt has cracked down severely on extremists since the 2013 ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the Brotherhood, following mass protests against his one-year divisive rule.
The Brotherhood was designated a "terrorist organization" months after Morsi's ouster.
Egypt sentences 14 to life for belonging to banned Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt sentences 14 to life for belonging to banned Muslim Brotherhood
- An Egyptian court has sentenced 14 people, including an adviser to an ousted president, to life in prison for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
- Along with Brotherhood membership, charges included possessing firearms, violating citizens' personal freedoms and disrupting constitutional provisions.
Yemen anti-terror forces display confiscated STC explosives and equipment used
RIYADH: Yemeni anti-terrorism forces, trained and equipped by Saudi Arabia, show confiscated explosives and equipment belonging to the now dissolved UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Mukalla.
Earlier today, Salam Al-Khanbashi, the governor of Hadhramaut, suggested the United Arab Emirates played an alarming role in Yemen and the largest of its 21 governorates.
In a televised press conference yesterday, Al-Khanbashi accused the UAE of having exploited the coalition working to restore legitimate government in Yemen “to achieve its own agenda.”
He also claimed that the citizens of Hadhramaut had been killed, terrorised and tortured by armed groups affiliated with STC leader Maj. Gen. Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, who is backed by the UAE and earlier this month was sacked as vice-president of the country’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC).
