Casablanca — Egyptian court has officially cancelled former President Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence as of November 15, reports Telquel.
Morsi, who served as Egypt’s fifth president, was removed from office by the army chief General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi following the 2013 protests and coup d’état. Egyptian prosecutors charged Morsi with a slew of crimes and had sentenced him to the death penalty. The court’s recent decision is a huge win for Morsi, who is currently still in the Borg el-Arab prison near Alexandria.
After Morsi’s downfall, more than 1,400 islamist protestors were killed, thousands were imprisoned, and hundreds were given the death penalty.
On Tuesday, however, the same court that dismissed Morsi’s death penalty sentence also dismissed the convictions of 25 of his co-defendants. One of those co-defendants includes former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie.
Next Tuesday, November 22, the court will have to judge on Morsi’s life sentence which he was given after being charged with spying for Hamas. On the 27th, the court will also reexamine charges placed on Morsi for spying for Qatar.
Former President Morsi has been charged a total of four times since his downfall in 2013. The charges vary from violence against demonstrators and espionage to the theft of “national security documents.”
