CAIRO: Egypt’s interim president has revoked amnesties for 52 people pardoned by ousted President Muhammad Mursi, state media reported, including those affiliated with the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, pardoned a number of hardliners during his one-year rule, many of whom had been imprisoned since the 1990s.

He was overthrown in July last year by former army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi following mass protests against his rule.

Sissi was elected president by a landslide this week, according to preliminary results.

Since Mursi’s fall, the Egyptian government has cracked down hard on hardliners.

The state news agency MENA said the amnesties canceled by interim President Adly Mansour had been granted in 2012 and 2013.

Security sources said those whose amnesties were canceled included a preacher and several figures affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s international movement.

The MENA report did not specify whose pardons were canceled but said that some were “implicated in crimes of killing and terrorizing innocent citizens.”

The cancelation came after the original pardons “sparked social controversy,” MENA said, including “doubt as to their intended purposes.”

The Muslim Brotherhood boycotted this week’s election, as did many secular democracy activists disillusioned by the crackdown. Sissi won with over 90 percent of the vote, according to state media quoting judicial and campaign sources.

Low turnout for the vote, however, raised questions over whether Sissi would have the strong national mandate he needs to fix the economy and face down an armed insurgency that has gathered pace over the last year.