A military court in Suez on Monday sentenced eight Brotherhood members in absentia to 15 years in prison as well as life imprisonment for inciting riots and violence.Among the defendants that were sentenced is Ahmed Mahmoud, the secretary of the dissolved Freedom and Justice Party in Suez.
One of the other defendants had been accused of killing Chief Detective Mohamed Sweilam of the Ganayen Police Department. He was killed while chasing Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had opened fire on the force that was securing the house of the former interior minister’s mother.
