24/05/2014
Egypt sentences 20 Islamist students for rioting
CAIRO ? An Egyptian court convicted 20 students from an Islamist university in Cairo on charges of rioting during a protest last year in support of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, sentencing most of them on Saturday to five years in prison, a judicial official said. The official said 19 of the students ? all from Cairo's Al-Azhar University ? were sentenced to five years in prison each. One defendant got three years while another was acquitted. The official, who spoke...
