CAIRO, Dec 8 (Aswat Masriya) - The Fayoum Criminal Court sentenced on Monday six Muslim Brotherhood leaders to eight years in absentia, and 22 others to 3 to 17 years on charges of violence following the dispersal of two pro-Mohamed Mursi sit-ins in August 2013.

Seven others were also sentenced to 17 years for cutting the road, resisting authorities, joining a banned group, attacking police facilities, attempted break in of the security directorate and acts of violence.

Fifteen other Brotherhood members and supporters were sentenced to three years in prison in a separate case also in Fayoum.

Muslim Brotherhood leaders have often found themselves behind bars and facing courts since the ouster of Brotherhood member and former islamist president on July 3 last year. A court in Minya has served over 1000 Brotherhood supporters preliminary death sentences in March and April 2014.

The former president, ousted since July 2013, is implicated in a group of other court cases. He is being tried for inciting the killing of protesters outside the presidential palace during his tenure in December 2012, insulting the judiciary, and escaping from the Wadi al-Natroun Prison during the 18-day January 25 uprising in 2011.