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An Alexandria misdemeanor court sentenced 21 women and girls (seven of whom were minors) from the “7 am movement” (formed in October 2013 to protest former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster) to sentences ranging from 11 to 15 years in jail in one of the first mass trials of women after Mohamed Morsi’s ouster on July 3, 2013. The women were sentenced in November 2013 for taking part in an illegal pro-Morsi protest in Alexandria and convicted of thuggery and damage to public property. Their sentences were later reduced to one year on appeal.