File Photo: Ezzat speaks during a hearing at a courtroom at the Torah Police Institute on the outskirts of Cairo. AFP
The court also sentenced 27 others to 15 years of aggravated imprisonment, six others to 10 years, three others to five years, and one defendant to three years of imprisonment with additional three years of probation.
Two defendants were given one year in prison, with the sentence suspended for three years, along with one year of probation, while one defendant was acquitted.
The court further ordered Ezzat and 28 others to pay EGP 7,054,734,104 to the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) as appropriate compensation under Article 72 of Law No. 10 of 2003 on telecommunications regulation.
Additionally, the court ruled that Ezzat and 44 others be placed under probation for five years after completing their sentences.
It also banned convicted defendant Ibrahim Ali Azzam from residing in any of Egypt’s border governorates for five years after serving his sentence.
The court declared the criminal case closed for defendants Ibrahim Mounir and Mahmoud Mohamed due to their deaths, and ruled that the case cannot be reconsidered for Mohamed Badie, Khairat El-Shater, and Ali Khalaf as it had already been adjudicated.
The ruling also included listing Ezzat and 73 others affiliated to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, along with the so-called parallel Egyptian parliament, the Egyptian Revolutionary Council, the Alliance to Support Legitimacy, the Egyptian Solidarity Association (Rabaa), and TV channels Mekameleen, Al-Thawra, Al-Sharq, and Watan, on the terrorism and terrorist entities lists.
The court ordered the dissolution of these groups, closure of their headquarters and media outlets, on charges of espionage for a foreign state, working in the interest of a terrorist organization abroad, financing its members, and exchanging information about the state’s security.
Ezzat, arrested in a hideout in Cairo in 2020, has received several life sentences over charges of terrorism.
He was the Acting Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organization by Egypt since December 2013.
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