Among them is the daughter of Khairat al-Shater.. Final Egyptian sentences of between 5 and 15 years in prison against four human rights activists for "financing terrorism"

On Sunday, an Egyptian emergency court sentenced 4 Egyptian human rights activists to between 5 and 15 years in prison on charges of joining and financing a terrorist group, including Aisha Al-Shater, daughter of Khairat Al-Shater, deputy general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has been arrested since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013.

The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms confirmed on Twitter that the defendants in the case, known in the media as the "Egyptian Coordination" case, were sentenced by the Emergency Supreme State Security Court, whose rulings cannot be appealed.

She added that the court decided "to 15 years in prison for each of the lawyers, Ezzat Ghoneim and Muhammad Abu Huraira, and the sentence against Aisha Khairat Al-Shater to 10 years in prison, and 5 years to the lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim."

The four jurists, who work for the "Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms" group, were arrested in 2018 in light of a security campaign that included the arrest of political and human rights activists and lawyers.

The first attorney general of the Supreme State Security Prosecution, Counselor Khaled Diaa El-Din, referred Aisha Khairat Saad Al-Shater and 30 others, including 6 women, to the Emergency State Security Criminal Court.

The authorities used to charge me with “joining a terrorist group,” referring to the Muslim Brotherhood, which Cairo designated a “terrorist organization” in 2013, and “disseminating false news” to human rights activists and activists.

According to the Egyptian Commission for Rights, human rights organizations are calling for "dropping all charges against the members of the Egyptian Coordination Committee on the grounds of accusations related to the exercise of their human rights work and their defense of human rights."

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Marie Lawlor, also wrote on Twitter that the four human rights defenders "were arbitrarily detained in 2018, forcibly disappeared, tortured, denied family visits, and accused in an unfair trial of joining a terrorist group."

International and local human rights organizations accuse the Egyptian authorities of suppressing all forms of opposition and estimate the number of political prisoners at 60,000, which Cairo denies.

In the same context, the Fourth Chamber of the Criminal Court of Emergency State Security, held in the Tora Courts Complex, punished 17 defendants in the case known in the media as "financing terrorism" with life imprisonment, 15 years for 7 defendants, and 5 years for two defendants.

The court acquitted the accused, and placed the convicts under police surveillance for a period of 5 years, starting after the expiration of the sentence for each of them.

The First Chamber of Terrorism of the Emergency State Security Criminal Court ordered the inclusion of the convicts on the lists of terrorist entities and the entity affiliated with it.