Egypt sentences Morsi to death
NEWS DESK (DİHA) - An Egypt court sentences former President Mohamed Morsi to death for a prison break in 2011.
The court ruled on Saturday that the sentencing of Morsi and 105 others will be referred to the Grand Mufti for confirmation. Many of those sentenced were tried in absentia, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential scholar, based in Qatar. The court will pronounce its final decision on June 2.
Morsi was spared the death sentence in the first of two trials that concluded on Thursday, in which the court advised death sentences for 16 defendants on espionage charges. They had been charged with colluding with foreign powers, the Palestinian Hamas and Iran to destabilise Egypt.
With this verdict, Morsi and other former opposition members have been condemned for violence during the anti-Mubarak protest, while Mubarak himself beat charges in a trial over the deaths of anti-government protesters during the 18-day revolt that toppled him.
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