Egypt court sentences Morsi to life in jail for spying |
CAIRO:
An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in
prison on Tuesday on charges of spying for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas,
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and Iran.
The court also confirmed death sentences against 16 other defendants on charges
of delivering secret documents abroad between 2005 and 2013.
The court still has to decide whether to confirm or commute death sentences it
handed down against Morsi and more than 100 others in a separate trial on
charges related to their escape from prison during the 2011 uprising that ousted
veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak.
In Egypt, a life sentence is 25 years in jail. Tuesday's verdict can be
appealed.
The army ousted Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, in July
2013 after mass protests calling for an end to his divisive one-year rule.
He has already been sentenced to 20 years in jail in a separate trial on charges
of inciting violence.
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