The criminal court of the Nile Delta province of Damietta sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood loyalists to ten years in absentia, while acquitting eight others from charges of vandalizing a local council in 2013.
The accused were found guilty of ransacking the local council of the town of Kafr al-Battikh during a protest condemning the bloody dispersal of pro-Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adaweya and al-Nahda squares in August 2013.
Prosecutors accused the defendants of setting fire to the building, damaging public property and possession of arms and molotovs.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
