Cairo Criminal Court has issued a statement of reasons to justify a six-year sentence against Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed el Beltagi, whom it found guilty of insulting judges presiding over the jailbreak case.
Beltagi, who was also fined 20,000 pounds, had disrupted a court session probing prison break charges against him and 130 other defendants from the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah, all of whom are allegedly involved in storming the Wadi Natroun Prison in the wake of the January 25 Revolution.
Beltagi had falsely accused the court of not writing down the content of a CD offered as evidence in the jailbreak case.
The court insists that the process had taken place in the presence of prosecutors, the attorney general and the defense team representing the defendants, as well as media personnel.
It said in the statement that Beltagi had repeatedly made such false claims before
the judge ordered to take him out of the courtroom.
Those claims constitute an insult to the court and the judicial authority, the statement said.