An Egyptian court on 18 May sentenced 126 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison for alleged involvement in violence in the Nile Delta province of Kafr al-Sheikh in August of last year. The court also gave six minors a suspended one-year sentence for involvement in the same events. The sentence, however, can be applied to the boys if they commit a similar crime within the next three years, the court said. The verdicts, which drew immediate condemnation from the defendants and their families, can be appealed at a higher court.
Another Egyptian court on 18 May sentenced 37 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 15 years in jail allegedly for attempting to bomb two metro stations in capital Cairo last October. The same court slapped a minor with a three-year jail term for involvement in the same case, reports said.