The Alexandria Misdemeanors Court on Monday sentenced activist Maheinour El-Masry and nine others to two years in jail and a LE 5,000 fine each.

The defendants were accused of storming the Al-Raml police station in Alexandria and attacking its officers as well as torching the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in March 2013.

Lawyer Amr Abou El-Kheir and journalist Youssef Shaaban are also among the convicted.

The verdict can be appealed.

Human rights lawyer and revolutionary socialist activist El-Masry was released from jail in September 2014, after having served four months of a six-month sentence for "illegal protesting" during the Khaled Said murder retrial in December 2013.

In November 2013, a law was passed to ban all non-sanctioned  protests in Egypt.

During her four months in jail, before the sentence was suspended, El-Masry was awarded the 2014 Ludovic Trarieux Award for her contributions to the defence of human rights.