The court has sent its decision in the "Natroun case" to the country's Grand Mufti for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law, setting 2 June as a date for a final verdict.
The court also issued a preliminary ruling of death to Brotherhood leaders Mohamed El-Beltagy and Khairat El-Shater and 14 others in the trial known as "Hamas Espionage case."
The court also sent its decision in the "Hamas Espionage case" to the country's Grand Mufti for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law, setting 2 June as a date for a final verdict.
The Grand Mufti's opinion is non-binding to the court. However, Egyptian judges have traditionally adjusted their final rulings in accordance with the Mufti's recommendations.
- The defendants still retain the right to appeal any final verdict.
In the espionage case, Morsi and 35 others were charged with conspiring with foreign powers — including the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Lebanon's Hizbullah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard — to destabilise Egypt.
In the jailbreak case, the ex-president, along with 130 co-defendants, is accused of breaking out of jail during the 2011 uprising against Mubarak.
- In April, Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhod, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for inciting violence and ordering the arrest and torture of demonstrators during the December 2012 clashes between his supporters and opponents.
In April also, Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie, Omar Malek, the son of leading Brotherhood member and businessman Hassan Malek, as well as leading member Saad El-Hoseiny were among fourteen Islamists who received the capital punishment in a separate murder trial. The verdict in this case has been appealed.
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Palestinian movement Hamas has condemned the death sentences meted out by an Egyptian court on Saturday to a number of its members in two criminal cases on Saturday as "unfortunate and shocking."...
ReplyDeleteCairo Criminal Court handed ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 105 others, including a number of Hamas members, provisional death sentences for charges of committing murder, attempted murder, looting prison weapons, releasing prisoners, and damaging buildings during their escape from an Egyptian prison during the early days of the 2011 revolution.
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Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri said in a statement on Saturday that the verdict was based on "false information”, saying that some of those Hamas members who were convicted in absentia, including “martyrs Tayseer Abu-Senema and Hossam El-Sanea,” were dead at the time the offences were carried out.
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Egypt's ex-leader Mohammed Morsi gets life for spying...
ReplyDeleteEgypt's ex-president Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to life in prison for espionage by an Egyptian court.
He was accused of spying for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Lebanese militants Hezbollah and Iran.
The court is yet to decide on whether to uphold a death sentence given to the former leader over a mass prison break in 2011.
Morsi was deposed in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule.
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