Deposed Egyptian President Sentenced to Deat

On Saturday the former Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, was sentenced to death because of his contributions to the prison break in 2011 during the protests. He and a few other Islamist leaders overran the understaffed guard posts to free the prisoners. Morsi was the first democratically elected president of Egypt but held power for a very short time. He was removed from office by the military in 2013,

Before Morsi was sentenced to death he was also given 20 years in prison for illegal detainment and torture of prisoners. He also has a few other charges that have not been heard in court yet. Interestingly, Morsi's death sentence is still unofficial. He cannot be killed until the Grand Mufti, the top Sunni Muslim authority in Egypt, rules on the sentence. This ruling is scheduled for June 2nd.

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