Judge Said Youssef of Egypt's Minya court also sentenced 11 other Morsi supporters to 57-88 years on Saturday and last month ordered the execution of 529 more for murder of police deputy commander Upper Egypt's Minya criminal court handed on Sunday sentences ranging from five to 45 years in jail to 37 alleged supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi charged with attacks on police stations last August. The defendants were found guilty of assaulting police stations in Minya and Matay in the violence that followed the forced dispersal, which left hundreds dead, of the pro-Morsi Rabaa Al-Adawiya protest camp in Cairo. According to the defendants' lawyer Khaled El-Komy, Sunday's verdict was issued by Judge Said Youssef who last month ordered the execution of 529 others. On 24 March, an Upper Egyptian court in Minya sentenced 529 Morsi supporters to death on charges of murdering Mostafa El-Attar, deputy commander of the Matay district police station who was killed during riots in the aftermath of the same protest camp dispersal. The verdict -- which still awaits ratification by the Mufti (the country's highest religious authority) as per Egyptian law -- was largely condemned for being hasty and violating established court proceedings. On Saturday, the same judge also slammed 11 defendants charged with raiding a Minya police station last August with 57 to 88 years in prison. According to a report issued by the National Council for Human Rights, the dispersal of the pro-Morsi camp was followed by nationwide violence that reached 22 Egyptian governorates, with attacks on police stations and churches that left 686 dead, including 64 security forces personnel. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/99933.aspx
