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Egyptian Court Sentences Ex-President Morsi to Death

HeadlineMay 18, 2015

An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death. The ruling comes in the case of a 2011 prison break, one year before Morsi became Egypt’s first democratically elected leader. He has been imprisoned since being overthrown in a 2013 coup. The death term must now be confirmed by Egypt’s grand religious authority and could still be appealed to Egypt’s highest court. In a statement, Amnesty International called the trials “nothing but a charade based on null and void procedures.”

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