{"id":4491,"date":"2015-05-24T11:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2015-05-24T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T10:51:54","slug":"more-trouble-for-mursi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-trouble-for-mursi\/","title":{"rendered":"More trouble for Mursi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mursi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3793\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mursi.jpg\" alt=\"Mursi\" width=\"253\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mursi.jpg 416w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Mursi-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>An Egyptian court on Saturday acquitted 17 people of violating a strict protest law earlier this year at a march commemorating a 2011 uprising, judicial sources said, a rare decision since Egypt introduced the statute in late 2013.<br \/>\nThe demonstration in January caught the world\u2019s attention after the death of 32-year-old protester Shaimaa Sabbagh was caught on video.<br \/>\nThe public prosecutor has separately charged a police officer who allegedly fired birdshot to try to disperse the protest in connection with Sabbagh\u2019s death.<br \/>\nDefense lawyer Sayed Abu El-Ila, who was photographed with Sabbagh dying in his arms, told Reuters this was the first acquittal since the protest law came into force in 2013.<br \/>\nThe statute curtailed demonstrations, a regular feature of the turbulent years since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and has landed many leaders of that initial uprising behind bars.<br \/>\n\u201cI am not pleased by an acquittal at the expense of Shaimaa\u2019s blood,\u201d Abu El-Ila told reporters. \u201cShaimaa sacrificed her life to oppose an unjust law, and the law is still in place.\u201d<br \/>\nA separate court on Saturday began a trial of Mursi and 25 others on charges of insulting the judiciary. The defendants include Brotherhood leaders as well as television host Tawfiq Okasha and liberals Alaa Abdel Fattah and Amr Hamzawy.<br \/>\nMursi was sentenced to 20 years in prison last month on charges arising from the killing of protesters and faces the death penalty in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.<br \/>\nSeparately, the public prosecutor referred 61 alleged Brotherhood members from the Delta province of Damietta to a military prosecutor on suspicion of violence-related offenses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-trouble-for-mursi\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court on Saturday acquitted 17 people of violating a strict protest law earlier this year at a march commemorating a 2011 uprising, judicial sources said, a rare decision since Egypt introduced the statute in late 2013. 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