Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday Muslim Brotherhood figures Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, in addition to Mohamed Mahmoud Ali Zenati and Abdel Azim Ibrahim, the Rabaa al-Adaweya field hospital doctors, to 10 years in prison for kidnapping and torturing two policemen during a Muslim Brotherhood sit-in.
Beltagy and Hegazy were sentenced to another 10 years in prison for leading an illegal terrorist group that hampers the law, attacks freedoms and harms social peace and national unity. The other two defendants were also handed another five-year sentence in rigorous prison for joining a terrorist group.
Public prosecutor Hesham Barakat earlier referred the defendants to court over charges of forming a terrorist group, resisting authorities, thuggery and attempted murder of policemen.
Investigations showed that the defendants beat the policemen while they were securing a Muslim Brotherhood march, dragged them to the square and tortured them, causing them severe injury, before the Eastern Nasr City municipality director convinced the protesters to release them.
Witnesses confirmed the evidence.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
