Salafist figure Abu Ismail sentenced to five years on violence-related charges

A Cairo court sentenced Salafist politician and onetime presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to five years in prison on Sunday, for urging his supporters to violently “besiege” a courthouse in 2014, Ahram Online reports. Abu Ismail has been serving a seven-year sentence since 2014 on charges of forging documents during the 2012 presidential elections.