Mursi in jail after insulting judiciary
(MENAFN) Muhammad Mursi, former Islamist president, has been convicted with 18 others over insulting the judiciary, sentencing them to three years in prison.
Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is a rights activist, is serving a five-year sentence for participating in an illegal protese in 2013 and Amr Hamzawy, a political analyst, lives in exile, both of them are among defendants in the case, they were fined 30,000 Egyptian pounds.
Musri was ejected by the military in 2013 although he was Egypt"s first elected president after Mubarak.
Since then, he faced the charges of espionage and conspiring with foreign groups and as a result of that Egypt has cracked down on Islamists, putting thousands of them on jail in addition of liberal activsts.
Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who is a rights activist, is serving a five-year sentence for participating in an illegal protese in 2013 and Amr Hamzawy, a political analyst, lives in exile, both of them are among defendants in the case, they were fined 30,000 Egyptian pounds.
Musri was ejected by the military in 2013 although he was Egypt"s first elected president after Mubarak.
Since then, he faced the charges of espionage and conspiring with foreign groups and as a result of that Egypt has cracked down on Islamists, putting thousands of them on jail in addition of liberal activsts.
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