Egyptian ex-president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death
Mohammed Morsi, the onetime Egyptian president who was ousted in 2013, has been sentenced to death for his role in a 2011 mass jailbreak.
Morsi was sentenced along with 130 others, who were each accused of escaping prison and attacking police during the revolution against longtime president Hosni Mubarak. As with all Egyptian capital punishment cases, the verdict aganst Morsi will now be referred to the mufti, Egypt's top Muslim theologian, for his opinion.
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