Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was today sentenced to death by decision of the Cairo Criminal Court.
The Cairo Criminal Court announced the sentence on him and a number of leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in two cases – for treason and spying for a foreign state, as well as leading a mass escape of Muslim Brotherhood members from prison during the revolution of January 2011. In the case of treason Morsi's name was not mentioned, but he was sentenced to death for the jailbreak, among another 106 defendants, TASS reports.
The case relates to the so-called Great Escape – the exodus of prisoners during the January 25th Revolution of 2011, one of whom was the former head of Egypt. Then the country was swept by riots, and there were many cases of disobedience and acts of violence, which it turned out to be instigated by the Islamists.
16 former executives of the now banned Islamist association in Egypt were sentenced to death for espionage and treason in favor of a foreign country, including the "gray cardinal" of the "Brothers" Khairat Shater, and the deputy spiritual mentor Islamist, Mohamed al-Beltagy. They were found guilty of conspiring with "foreign organizations" to commit terrorist acts in the country, as well as "divulging military secrets to another state."
