Life imprisonment for the contractor “Muhammad Ali” and 37 others, placing them on the lists of terrorism
The First Chamber of Terrorism of the Emergency Supreme State Security Criminal Court, held in the Badr Courts Complex, issued its ruling in the trial of the fugitive contractor, Muhammad Ali, and 102 other accused of his accomplices, on charges of spreading false news that would affect the national security of the country, and joining a group that was established contrary to the provisions of the law and the constitution, and it is the terrorist group.
Brotherhood, in Case No. 1530 of 2020, the Supreme State Security confined it to the case known in the media as “The Joker.”
Where it punished the fugitive contractor Muhammad Ali and 37 others with life imprisonment and placed them on the lists of terrorism.
The verdict was issued under the chairmanship of Counselor Muhammad Al-Saeed Al-Sherbiny, with the membership of counselors Essam Abu Al-Ela, Gharib Muhammad Metwally, Mahmoud Zaidan, Muhammad Nabil, and the secretaries of Mamdouh Abdel-Rashid and Ahmed Mustafa.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution, headed by Counselor Khaled Diaa El-Din, the First Public Prosecutor of the Prosecution, had ordered the referral of the fugitive contractor, Muhammad Ali, and 102 of his accomplices in Case No. 1530 of 2020, the Supreme State Security, known in the media as “The Joker,” for urgent trial before the competent court.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution assigned the defendants in the Joker case charges of committing crimes of joining a terrorist group established contrary to the provisions of the law, the purpose of which is to call for disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work, and spreading false news about the political and economic conditions in the country, with the intention of disturbing public peace. Within the framework of the terrorist Brotherhood’s goals, and promoting the group’s goals aimed at undermining confidence in the Egyptian state and its institutions.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated 12 defendants in the case, and also ordered them to be imprisoned for 15 days pending investigations in the case, after accusing them of communicating with one of the Brotherhood’s satellite channels. To try to restore the Brotherhood regime to power, and to express protest at the same time, in an attempt to incite the people against the Egyptian state.
The prosecution also charged the defendants with several charges, including joining a terrorist group, publishing and broadcasting false news and statements, and misusing social media.
