CAIRO (MEMO) – The Egyptian Supreme State Security Criminal Court at the Tura Courts Complex, south of Cairo, has issued a judgment convicting defendants in the case known in the media as “returnees from Kuwait” with penalties ranging from life to rigorous imprisonment.

The judgment issued, headed by counselor Moataz Khafagy, included 14 defendants from the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood group opposed to the ruling, which the Egyptian authorities classify as “terrorists”, according to Egyptian media.

The Egyptian National Security Agency accuses the convicts of holding organizational meetings and assigning leaders and members of the group fleeing to Kuwait “Of planning to commit hostile operations within Egypt against state institutions, to ban them from performing their works, disrupting the provisions of the constitution and laws, and striking national unity and social peace, reaching to the overthrowing the country’s ruling system”.