Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday 47 defendants to 15 to seven years of rigorous imprisonment over Muslim Brotherhood acts of violence in a case known as Tebbin police station attack.

Twenty defendants were slapped 15-year rigorous imprisonment, 15 others 10-year rigorous jail and 11 others seven-year rigorous imprisonment.

The court ordered that the defendants will collectively pay EGP 10.1 million in compensation of the damage caused to the police facility.

The defendants were accused of storming the Tebbin police station in August 2013 in the aftermath of ending Raba el Adawiya and Nahada squares sit-in.

They face charges of possessing unlicensed weapons and torching the police station.

Source: MENA