CAIRO
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced two people to life in prison over involvement in incidents of sexual assault that occurred in Cairo's Tahrir Square in June, judicial sources said.
A third man was sentenced to 20 years in jail in the same case.
The trio was ordered to pay 100,000 Egyptian pounds (around $14,000) in compensation to the victims.
The ruling is appealable.
This is the fifth such trial over incidents of sexual assault in Cairo's iconic square during rallies held in June to celebrate the inauguration of Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi.
The same court had earlier sentenced seven people to life in prison and two to 20 years over similar charges.
The attacks had sparked a public outrage after one incident was captured on video and shared widely online showing one victim stripped naked and severely bruised during mob assaults, which prosecutors have designated as "attempted rape."
Al-Sisi had visited the victim that appeared in the video, publicly apologized to her and vowed a swift punishment for the perpetrators.
Over the past two years, numerous incidents of mob sexual assault have been reported during demonstrations in Tahrir but the video provided the most graphic footage yet of such an attack.
Around 84 percent of Egyptian woman say they have been subjected to verbal or physical sexual harassment, according to a 2012 study by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, a local NGO.
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