Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata of the Giza Criminal Court sentenced 71 defendants affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood to life imprisonment on Wednesday and fined them LE20,000 each, deeming them guilty of burning a church in Kerdasa in August 2013.
Two minors were also sentenced to 10 years in prison in the same case.
The charges also included attempted murder and large-scale acts of violence following the dispersal of the Rabaa and al-Nahda sit-ins.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
