Sixty-nine Muslim Brotherhood supporters were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in Egypt yesterday for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013, the Reuters website reports today (April 30, 2015).
The church in the village of Kafr Hakim just outside of Cairo was burnt in August 2013 in a wave of violence that rocked the country after the army toppled elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi following mass protests against his rule.
Egyptian authorities have jailed thousands of suspected members of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, and the courts have sentenced hundreds to death.
Since taking office in 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has identified Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and a threat to national security.
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