Egypt court sentences 76 more pro-Morsi supporters

By Nahla Ibrahim

CAIRO

A court in Cairo sentenced 76 pro-Morsi supporters to 10 years in prison Wednesday on various charges, including acts of violence and staging protests without permits, according to an unnamed judicial source.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity because of fear for safety of his life, the source said the pro-Morsi supporters were arrested on Aug. 30, 2013, while protesting the Rabia and al-Nahda incidents on Aug. 14, the same year.

Among the people sentenced is a deceased Muslim Brotherhood leader, Farid Ismail.

Ismail was put into jail last year and died two days later in May 2015.

Hundreds of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, who was Egypt’s first democratically-elected leader, were killed in August 2013 when security forces violently cleared their sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.

Security forces have also detained thousands of Morsi supporters in an attempt to quell the unrest that followed the 2013 military coup.

*Anadolu Agency's Mahmoud Barakat contributed to this report from Ankara.