Police jailed for five years after going on strike in Egypt
The group were jailed for between three and five years for their parts in the strike.
Saturday 28 April 2018 21:50, UK
Thirteen police officers have been jailed for between three and five years after striking for higher pay and better working conditions.
Eleven members of the group were sentenced to three years in prison and two were jailed for five years.
The charges were illegal assembly, inciting against the interior ministry (which is in charge of law enforcement), and belonging to an outlawed group.
The state-run Al-Ahram news website said the men were low-ranking officers who were among hundreds who went on strike in the Nile Delta's Sharqiya governorate in 2015.
At the time, a security source linked the protests to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, Al-Ahram said.
The sentences were handed down in Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday.
The officers are allowed to appeal their sentences but it is not clear whether they will.
No further details were given.
Egypt banned unauthorised protests two years before the strike. The move came after the military overthrew an elected Islamist president amid mass protests calling for him to stand down.