Forty-one defendants were sentenced to serve between three and seven years behind bars, while 90 others were handed down life sentences. (Representational Image)
Cairo:
An Egyptian military court on Tuesday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to 10 years in prison over deadly clashes following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, judicial officials said.
Ninety other defendants tried in absentia were sentenced to life terms, which in Egypt runs to 25 years.
Badie and dozens of others were found guilty of participating in clashes that killed 31 people in the canal city of Suez between August 14 and 16, 2013.
The clashes erupted after police brutally broke up two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on August 14 that year.
The charges in the military trial included vandalism, inciting violence, murder, assaulting military personnel and setting fire to armoured personnel carriers and two Coptic churches in Suez.
Badie, the Brotherhood's spiritual guide, was sentenced to 10 years in prison along with fellow Brotherhood leader Mohamed Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, a pro-Brotherhood Islamist, army and judicial officials said.
Forty-one defendants were sentenced to serve between three and seven years behind bars, while 90 others were handed down life sentences.
Tuesday's sentences can be appealed.
Badie is facing several trials and has been sentenced to death in a separate case along with Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
The Brotherhood chief has also been handed life sentences in five other cases.
Hundreds of supporters of Morsi were killed on August 14, 2013 when police stormed their camps in Cairo, just weeks after the Islamist president was ousted by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Military tribunals in Egypt have regularly faced criticism for their harsh and swift verdicts.
Egypt's constitution allows military trials of civilians accused of violence targeting military targets, which include public infrastructure such as highways and bridges as well as universities.
Since Morsi's overthrow, the authorities have launched a brutal crackdown against his supporters leaving hundreds dead and thousands jailed after often speedy mass trials.
Morsi himself is facing several trials and has been sentenced to death in one case, while his Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed as a "terrorist organisation".
Ninety other defendants tried in absentia were sentenced to life terms, which in Egypt runs to 25 years.
Badie and dozens of others were found guilty of participating in clashes that killed 31 people in the canal city of Suez between August 14 and 16, 2013.
The clashes erupted after police brutally broke up two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo on August 14 that year.
The charges in the military trial included vandalism, inciting violence, murder, assaulting military personnel and setting fire to armoured personnel carriers and two Coptic churches in Suez.
Badie, the Brotherhood's spiritual guide, was sentenced to 10 years in prison along with fellow Brotherhood leader Mohamed Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, a pro-Brotherhood Islamist, army and judicial officials said.
Forty-one defendants were sentenced to serve between three and seven years behind bars, while 90 others were handed down life sentences.
Tuesday's sentences can be appealed.
Badie is facing several trials and has been sentenced to death in a separate case along with Morsi for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
The Brotherhood chief has also been handed life sentences in five other cases.
Hundreds of supporters of Morsi were killed on August 14, 2013 when police stormed their camps in Cairo, just weeks after the Islamist president was ousted by then army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Military tribunals in Egypt have regularly faced criticism for their harsh and swift verdicts.
Egypt's constitution allows military trials of civilians accused of violence targeting military targets, which include public infrastructure such as highways and bridges as well as universities.
Since Morsi's overthrow, the authorities have launched a brutal crackdown against his supporters leaving hundreds dead and thousands jailed after often speedy mass trials.
Morsi himself is facing several trials and has been sentenced to death in one case, while his Muslim Brotherhood has been outlawed as a "terrorist organisation".
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