May 16, 2015
By the AP
CAIRO
— An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi and over
100 others to death Saturday over a mass prison break during the 2011
uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and later brought Islamists to power
for the first time in Egypt.
As
is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban el-Shami
referred his death sentence on Morsi and others to the nation's top
Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his non-binding opinion. El-Shami set
June 2 for the next hearing.
Morsi,
Egypt's first freely elected leader, was ousted by the military in July
2013 following days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that
he be removed because of his divisive policies. Morsi's successor,
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, was the military chief at the time and led the
ouster. El-Sissi ran for president last year and won the vote in a
landslide....
