23 MB members given 5-year sentences for Nasr City violence

Nasr City Misdemeanor Court ordered 23 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to serve five-year sentences for taking part in December clashes on Mostafa Nahas street in Nasr City.

The defendants were found guilty of thuggery and creating chaos, blocking the roads and attacking police forces, in addition to being part of an armed terrorist group that aimed to disrupt public security, destroy public property, protest without permits and possess firearms, independently owned daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.

According to independently owned newspaper Al-Shorouk, six of the defendants are women.

In December, dozens of Brotherhood members blocked Mostafa Nahas and Khalife Maamoun Streets in Nasr City, engaging with police forces and onlookers by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. Security forces responded with tear gas and arrested 23 of them.

The Brotherhood was declared a terrorist group in November after a Cairo administrative court banned the group's activities, subsidiaries and any organizations funded by it.