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| Salafist Preacher Gets 1-Year Sentence |
| 2014-05-01 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] Egyptian court officials say a Salafi preacher and top Moslem Brüderbund ally has been sentenced to a year in prison with labor for insulting judges during a trial at the Cairo police academy. Safwat Hegazy, who joined ranks with the Brotherhood in supporting the electoral campaign of the now-deposed Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , was sentenced Wednesday for remarks made the same day while on trial with 130 others, including Morsi, for escaping from prison during the country's 2011 uprising. Hegazy was a key speaker at the main pro-Morsi sit-in dispersed by security forces last August. He had told protesters to hold their ground and promised to reverse the military's overthrow of Morsi. |
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