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An Egypt court has sentenced 51 people to two years each in prison for protesting against a decision to cede two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Reports said Cairo’s last months’ decision to hand over the islands to Saudi Arabia sparked a backlash among many Egyptians.
It was made by Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi during a rare visit by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, during which the Saudi king announced plans for aid and investment in Egypt.
Critics says President Sisi sold the uninhabited islands, Tiran and Sanafir, in return for the investments.
But the Egyptian government maintains that the islands always belonged to Saudi Arabia, and were only being looked after by Egypt since the 1950s.
