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Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for a mass prison break which happened in 2011, Aljazeera reports.
Morsi was sentenced along 105 others, with most of them absent during the sentencing.
The court ruled on Saturday that their sentencing will be referred to the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in Egypt, for confirmation.
The court will pronounce its final decision on June 2.
The development prompted immediate condemnations from Amnesty International and the Turkish President.
Saturday's sentence came as an attack in the Sinai Peninsula left three judges dead and another three wounded.
The group was travelling by car from Ismailiya to El Arish when they were shot at by unidentified gunmen.
Since Morsi's removal by now President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a series of attacks have targeted security forces in Sinai, but Saturday's attack was the first against members of the judiciary.
Morsi, who was overthrown by the army in 2013 amid protests against his government, 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 group Hamas and Iran to destabilise Egypt.
Egyptian authorities have banned Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood since his overthrow and arrested thousands of his supporters.
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Morsi was sentenced along 105 others, with most of them absent during the sentencing.
The court ruled on Saturday that their sentencing will be referred to the Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in Egypt, for confirmation.
The court will pronounce its final decision on June 2.
The development prompted immediate condemnations from Amnesty International and the Turkish President.
Saturday's sentence came as an attack in the Sinai Peninsula left three judges dead and another three wounded.
The group was travelling by car from Ismailiya to El Arish when they were shot at by unidentified gunmen.
Since Morsi's removal by now President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a series of attacks have targeted security forces in Sinai, but Saturday's attack was the first against members of the judiciary.
Morsi, who was overthrown by the army in 2013 amid protests against his government, 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 group Hamas and Iran to destabilise Egypt.
Egyptian authorities have banned Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood since his overthrow and arrested thousands of his supporters.
#Egypt #Morsi #MohammedMorsi #Turkey
