Thirty-six members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were today sentenced for up to five years in prison by an Egyptian military court for illegally protesting outside a city council in the country's northeast last year.
Twenty-six people were sentenced in absentia to five years in prison by the court for protesting outside el-Mazala city council in Dakahlia governorate.
Eight others present were sentenced to two years in prison, while two persons were sentenced to one year in jail.
One person was acquitted in the same case.
Since Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi's ouster in 2013, the Egyptian government has been cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters.
Ex-president Mohamed Morsi himself was sentenced to death in May along with Mohamed Badie, the supreme guide of Muslim Brotherhood and over hundred Islamist leaders for a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution which toppled former president Hosni Mubarak.
