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BREAKING: Egyptian activist Douma, 229 defendants receive life sentence The defendants, accused of violent acts in December 2011, were also fined LE17 million; 39 other defendants receive 10 years in jail
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced well-known Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma and another 229 defendants to life-in-prison on Wednesday and fined them all LE17 million (US$2.2 million) for involvement in the December 2011 cabinet clashes case. A life-in-prison verdict carries a sentence of 25 years in jail according to the Egyptian penal code. Some 39 other defendants were sentenced to ten years in prison in the same case. All defendants can appeal against the verdict. Douma, along with 268 defendants, were accused of possessing bladed weapons and Molotov cocktails, assaulting personnel from the armed forces and the police, torching the Scientific Complex in downtown Cairo and damaging other governmental buildings, including that of the cabinet and the parliament. Clashes erupted near the Cabinet close to Tahrir Square, the focal point of the 2011 uprising, when a sit-in was forcibly dispersed by security personnel, sparking clashes between protesters and army and police forces. Douma has been a long-time rights activist who protested against the regime of toppled president Hosni Mubarak, the military council in 2011-2012 as well as ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/122183.aspx
