CAIRO, April 4, 2018 - About 190 member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday were sentenced to long prison terms by a court in the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Suhag for forming a clandestine cell whose members possessed fire arms and used them in launching 13 terrorist attacks in various areas of the governorate in 2015, security sources said. The Suhag Criminal Court sentenced 124 of the cell members in absentia on charges of carrying out terrorist attacks which resulted in the damaging of state properties and wounding a number of police personnel three years ago, the sources said. Thirty five persons were sentenced to life in prison in the same case, they added. The sources added that 61 defendants received 15-year-prison term each, 62 men got a 10-year prison term each, 26 men got a five-year prison term each, and six defendants would be imprisoned for three years each. The defendants were accused of damaging public property and attacking police personnel in different towns of Suhag. In another case, the same court sentenced five men to death for killing a night watchman, a worker and planning to murder four police officers, the sources said. Death sentence recommendations in Egypt are passed on to the country's Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority. His opinion can be ignored by the court. The rulings can be appealed.
