You wonder why the Egyptian government feels they have to completely shut them down, here’s why…
Via VICE:
An Egyptian court sentenced eight men, including two members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to prison Saturday for “torturing, electrocuting and sexually assaulting” a lawyer during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Brotherhood leaders Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy, along with an Al-Jazeera journalist and one other defendant were sentenced to 15 years, sources told AFP.
Four others, among them ousted president Mohamed Morsi’s former youth minister, Osama Yassin, were sentenced to three years in jail, the sources said.
Morsi is a key figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, and served a tumultuous year as president before being deposed in a July 2013 military coup by current leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former head of Egypt’s army.