Five defendants stand behind bars to hear the ruling on their case for sexual harassment and attacking women during celebrations in June after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election, at a court in Cairo, July 16, 2014. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced two men to life imprisonment and a third to 20 years in jail on Thursday, for sexually assaulting and beating women during celebrations held after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's election.
The men were also asked to pay 100,000 pounds (£8,303) each in compensation to their victims, who were forcibly separated from their friends and family, stripped of their clothes, beaten and sexually assaulted by gangs of men during a rally on June 6.
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