Egypt court upholds Morsi death sentence
‘An Egyptian court has upheld a death sentence against ousted President Mohamed Morsi over a prison break in 2011.
The court in the capital, Cairo, confirmed on Tuesday a preliminary verdict that had been issued last month in a controversial jailbreak case.
The final ruling reportedly came after Egypt’s grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in the Arab country, issued his non-binding advice on the preliminary verdict.
Egypt’s judiciary had charged Morsi and 130 other defendants with escaping from Wadi el-Natrun Prison, located north of Cairo, in January 2011, during the uprising that led to the ouster of the country’s former dictator Hosni Mubarak.’
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