CAIRO, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian court sentenced on Tuesday 148 members of the currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to jail ranging from five to 25 years over breaking into a police station in upper Egypt's province of Minya, state-run Ahram newspaper reported.
Minya Criminal Court sentenced 11 of them to life sentence, which is 25 years in jail in Egypt. Another 106 received 15 years in jail.
The defendants were accused of storming a police station, and setting it ablaze following the security dispersal of two Islamist sit-in in Cairo in 2013.
Investigations proved that the defendants have been inciting violence, public disorder and public institutions' sabotage.
Egypt has been experiencing anti-security attacks since the army-led ouster of the former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, and ban of his Muslim Brotherhood group in 2014.
Thousands were detained and hundreds were facing trials. Morsi and prominent figures of his group have received final verdicts that varied from death to life sentences over accusations of murder, violence and spying.
