evidence provided by the prosecution in the trial was indeed laughable. this included showing video footage that had nothing to do with egypt. some of it was part of a documentary from somalia. one of it was a music video. i mean, and, you know, egypt's judiciary has acted with a degree of independence in the past. but ever since morsi's ouster, they have appeared to be more than a willing partner in repression and have handed down extremely harsh verdicts including sentencing hundreds of people in mass trials to deaths and this sentence and this verdict after really a, you know, a laughable presentation of evidence by the prosecution, which they showed very uncontroversial footage which any journalist could have had,