Cairo criminal court sentences Morsi, who was already in prison, alongside 19 others and fines him £83,000The former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 2m Egyptian pounds (£83,000) after being found guilty of insulting the judiciary. Nineteen others were also jailed for three years on Saturday, but fined lesser amounts ranging from 30,000 to 1m Egyptian pounds. The case involved 25 defendants, five of whom – including the prominent human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and the political commentator Amr Hamzawy – were fined 30,000 Egyptian pounds. The court ordered all defendants to pay 1m Egyptian pounds to the Judges Club, an unofficial body in charge of dealing with judicial affairs. The protesters demanded Morsi be returned to his post as Egypt’s legitimate president, describing the 3 July events as a military coup.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 10:52 UTC