Cairo Criminal Court issued 20 years in prison sentence in the retrial of Mahmoud Makkawi, a Muslim Brotherhood member convicted of violence that occurred in 2012 outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace.
The Public Prosecution accused Makkawi and others (on top of them former President Mohamed Morsi) of inciting a number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders to kill and torture protesters.
The incidents had left six people dead and 25 others injured.
The Cairo Criminal Court decided to adjourn till January 28 the retrial of 120 defendants in the violent incidents that took place in the vicinity of the Syndicate of Journalists.
The decision was made to complete hearing the defense pleadings.
Earlier, the public prosecution had charged the defendants with murder, attempted murder, incitement to protest and violence, as well as deliberately destroying public property and disturbing public order in contravention of the law.
Some 15 defendants were sentenced to one year in jail with labor and placed under police surveillance for one year. Some 212 other defendants had received in absentia a ten-year jail term each in the same case
