Criminal Court sentences 52 defendants to 15 years in Nahda sit-in case
Sunday 05/May/2019 - 04:26 PM
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Giza Criminal Court sentenced one defendant to life
in a retrial for joining a demonstration by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood
Group at Nahda Square in Giza in August 2013.
The court sentenced 52 others to 15 years, one to
three years, two to one year each and acquitted 10 others.
The verdict includes paying two million Egyptian
pounds by the defendants to Orman Park, 10 million to Giza Governorate and 25
million to Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering in damages.
The charges include holding a sit-in in the square
to negatively affect peace and security and jeopardize the lives of citizens,
resisting policemen ordered to dismantle the demonstration, premeditated
murder, murder, blocking roads and possessing weapons without license.
