The Supreme Court for Military Appeals on Tuesday upheld earlier military court verdicts against 18 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement charged with "affiliation with a banned group," including MB Second Deputy General Guide Khairat el-Shater. The verdicts range from three to ten years each in prison.
"It’s a political decision made at a time when everyone is preoccupied with Egypt’s grudge match against Algeria," MB lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud said of the ruling.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
