Cairo Court Confirms Death Sentence on Ousted President Morsi
Ahram Online
Tuesday 16 Jun 2015
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to death on Tuesday over a prison break in 2011, after a Cairo court confirmed a preliminary death ruling issued in May.
The verdict can be appealed.
On 16 May, the court issued a preliminary death sentence against Morsi and 105 other defendants in the jailbreak case, after which their papers were referred to the grand mufti, a senior Muslim cleric, for aconsultative review as required by Egyptian law.
The mufti's advice regarding the death sentence is not legally binding.
In the Wadi Natroun jailbreak case, the prosecution charged Morsi and 130 co-defendants, many tried in absentia, with damaging and setting fire to prison buildings, murder, attempted murder, looting prisonweapons depots and releasing prisoners while escaping from the prison during the January 2011 revolution.
According to the prosecution, the prisoners who escaped include members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah, as well as jihadists and criminals.
Prosecutors said that over 800 fighters from Gaza had infiltrated Egypt and used rocket-propelled grenades and weapons to storm three prisons, abducting four policemen and killing several others.
Also on Tuesday, The same court sentenced Morsi to life in prison for charges related to espionage with foreign powers - including Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards - to destabilise Egypt.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/132900.aspx
Tuesday 16 Jun 2015
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to death on Tuesday over a prison break in 2011, after a Cairo court confirmed a preliminary death ruling issued in May.
The verdict can be appealed.
On 16 May, the court issued a preliminary death sentence against Morsi and 105 other defendants in the jailbreak case, after which their papers were referred to the grand mufti, a senior Muslim cleric, for aconsultative review as required by Egyptian law.
The mufti's advice regarding the death sentence is not legally binding.
In the Wadi Natroun jailbreak case, the prosecution charged Morsi and 130 co-defendants, many tried in absentia, with damaging and setting fire to prison buildings, murder, attempted murder, looting prisonweapons depots and releasing prisoners while escaping from the prison during the January 2011 revolution.
According to the prosecution, the prisoners who escaped include members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Hezbollah, as well as jihadists and criminals.
Prosecutors said that over 800 fighters from Gaza had infiltrated Egypt and used rocket-propelled grenades and weapons to storm three prisons, abducting four policemen and killing several others.
Also on Tuesday, The same court sentenced Morsi to life in prison for charges related to espionage with foreign powers - including Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards - to destabilise Egypt.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/132900.aspx
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