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The secular pro-democracy leaders helped overthrow the first democratically elected government in Egypt's history and welcomed the military coup and the return to military rule. Now the the military are going after them.
"Egyptian Court Sentences Activist to 5 Years in Prison"
"State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States was "deeply troubled by the new harsh sentences."
"These sentences and others under the (demonstrations) law have had a chilling effect on key freedoms of expression and assembly," she told reporters in Washington."
What did the State Department expect after the military coup?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/23/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt.html?_r=0
"Egyptian Court Sentences Activist to 5 Years in Prison"
"State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States was "deeply troubled by the new harsh sentences."
"These sentences and others under the (demonstrations) law have had a chilling effect on key freedoms of expression and assembly," she told reporters in Washington."
What did the State Department expect after the military coup?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/23/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt.html?_r=0