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An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced dozens of people to prison in relation to the Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in in 2014, in which hundreds were massacred by security forces during a brutal crackdown on protesters. The Court of Cassation province on Tuesday upheld the rulings issued by the criminal court in the province of Minya in July last year, which included three to fifteen-year prison sentences against 52 people, according to MENA news agency. Their lawyers said that the court had rejected appeals submitted by the defendants, who were initially convicted of “violence, public vandalism and at…