Egypt’s highest appellate court on Thursday upheld a five-year jail term handed down earlier against senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel-Rahman al-Bar, according to a judicial source.
The unnamed judicial source was quoted in local media as saying that Egypt’s Court of Cassation had also upheld similar sentences handed down against two other high-profile Brotherhood members.
All three defendants were convicted earlier on charges of “attacking security forces” in July 2013 — three weeks after Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely-elected president and a Muslim Brotherhood leader was ousted in a bloody military coup.
According to the judicial source, the jail sentences are final and cannot be appealed.