SUEZ, May 7 (Aswat Masriya) - The Suez Military Court sentenced on Thursday 15 defendants to life in prison for murder charges and complicity in violence which dates back to December 2013.

The court also sentenced two juveniles to 10 years in prison in the same case. 

The prosecution charged the defendants with murder, attempted murder, joining a "terrorist" group, committing violence, resisting the authorities, vandalising a police car and "terrorising" citizens.

The violence occurred on December 13, 2013. The case was later referred to the military prosecution. 

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued in October 2014 a new law which expands the jurisdiction of military tribunals on civilians, allowing the referral of crimes committed against the state's public and "vital" facilities to the military judiciary.