(VOVworld) – An Egyptian court on Monday handed sentences of one year to life imprisonment to 238 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) supporters. 

Relatives and families of members of the Muslim Brotherhood react outside a court in Minya, south of Cairo, after the sentences of Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and his supporters were announced, June 21, 2014.

The defendants were charged with conducting violent activities, murder, blocking streets, and destroying public property during clashes in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia last summer.
Another court sentenced 78 backers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison for inciting violence, murder, and terrorism in Mansoura province last August. The same court sentenced 20 students from Al-Azhar University's Mansoura branch, along with one student from another university, to seven years in prison for their involvement in violence last December.
Eighteen people, three of them who worked for Qatar’s television station Al-Jazeera, were sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison on charges of propagating false information, and supporting and participating in the MB, which is recognised as a terrorist group by the Egyptian government.