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Egypt sentences deposed Islamist president Morsi to death
POSTED: 16 May 2015 18:38
Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi sits behind the defendants cage during a trial at the police academy court in Cairo on Nov 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP/STR)
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CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to death on Saturday (May 16) over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising.
Morsi, sitting in a caged dock in the blue uniform of convicts having already been sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fists in defiance when the judge read out his verdict.
Among the others sentenced to death were Mohamed Badei, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who had already been handed the death penalty in another trial, and his deputy Khairat al-Shater.
Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, had ruled for only a year before mass protests prompted the military to overthrow him in July 2013.
He and dozens of other Islamist leaders were then detained amid a crackdown that left hundreds of his supporters dead.
Many of those sentenced on Saturday were tried in absentia, including prominent Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi who resides in Qatar.
Under Egyptian law, death sentences are passed on to the mufti, the government's interpreter of Islamic law, who plays an advisory role. The defendants can appeal even after the mufti's recommendation.
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 Saturday, in which the court advised death sentences for 16 defendants on espionage charges. They had been charged with colluding wi
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/world/egypt-sentences-deposed/1851544.html
Egypt sentences deposed Islamist president Morsi to death
POSTED: 16 May 2015 18:38
Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi sits behind the defendants cage during a trial at the police academy court in Cairo on Nov 5, 2014. (Photo: AFP/STR)
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CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to death on Saturday (May 16) over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising.
Morsi, sitting in a caged dock in the blue uniform of convicts having already been sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fists in defiance when the judge read out his verdict.
Among the others sentenced to death were Mohamed Badei, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who had already been handed the death penalty in another trial, and his deputy Khairat al-Shater.
Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, had ruled for only a year before mass protests prompted the military to overthrow him in July 2013.
He and dozens of other Islamist leaders were then detained amid a crackdown that left hundreds of his supporters dead.
Many of those sentenced on Saturday were tried in absentia, including prominent Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi who resides in Qatar.
Under Egyptian law, death sentences are passed on to the mufti, the government's interpreter of Islamic law, who plays an advisory role. The defendants can appeal even after the mufti's recommendation.
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 Saturday, in which the court advised death sentences for 16 defendants on espionage charges. They had been charged with colluding wi
