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Egypt’s first democratically-elected leader was overthrown by a military coup in 2013 after just one year in office.
A death sentence handed to Egypt’s first democratically-elected president has been overturned.
An appeals court has reversed the sentence given to ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in one of several trials since his 2013 overthrow, a judicial official said.
Morsi was overthrown by a military coup after having served just one year of a four-year term, with army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi taking power. Since then his Muslim Brotherhood group has also been outlawed as part of a crackdown that has left hundreds of his supporters dead and thousands jailed.
The Court of Cassation ordered that Morsi be retried on the charges of participating in prison breaks and violence against policemen during the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak.
Five co-defendants, including the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, will also be retried. Last month, a court upheld a 20-year sentence given to Morsi over the killing of protesters in December 2012. Morsi has already been sentenced to life in prison in two other trials. In one he was convicted of spying for Iran, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
In the second he was convicted of stealing documents relating to national security and handing them to Qatar, a longstanding supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mass protests were staged by Morsi’s supporters on the streets of Cairo after his arrest in 2013, as they demanded his release and immediate return to power.
But Morsi was detained at a secret location and charged with inciting the murder of a journalist and protesters, as well as torture and leaking state secrets.
Egypt’s first democratically-elected leader was overthrown by a military coup in 2013 after just one year in office.
A death sentence handed to Egypt’s first democratically-elected president has been overturned.
An appeals court has reversed the sentence given to ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in one of several trials since his 2013 overthrow, a judicial official said.
Morsi was overthrown by a military coup after having served just one year of a four-year term, with army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi taking power. Since then his Muslim Brotherhood group has also been outlawed as part of a crackdown that has left hundreds of his supporters dead and thousands jailed.
The Court of Cassation ordered that Morsi be retried on the charges of participating in prison breaks and violence against policemen during the 2011 uprising which toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak.
Five co-defendants, including the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, will also be retried. Last month, a court upheld a 20-year sentence given to Morsi over the killing of protesters in December 2012. Morsi has already been sentenced to life in prison in two other trials. In one he was convicted of spying for Iran, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
In the second he was convicted of stealing documents relating to national security and handing them to Qatar, a longstanding supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mass protests were staged by Morsi’s supporters on the streets of Cairo after his arrest in 2013, as they demanded his release and immediate return to power.
But Morsi was detained at a secret location and charged with inciting the murder of a journalist and protesters, as well as torture and leaking state secrets.
