The Cairo Criminal Court is to issue on Monday its verdict in the retrial of political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 other defendants over riot incidents that followed a protest outside the Shura Council in November 2013.
The defendants stand accused of violating the protest law, acquiring weapons during the protest, blocking roads, and attacking a police officer and stealing his radio.
All 25 defendants had been sentenced in absentia to 15 years, an EGP 100,000 fine, and put on parole for a period of five years. They had been found guilty of violating the Protest Law but were later granted a retrial.