An Egyptian court has overturned a death sentence against the deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and ordered a retrial. The Muslim Brotherhood leader was sentenced to death in June 2015 in connection with a mass jail break during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. How Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first elected president, ended up on death row Read moreThe first president to be democratically elected after the revolution, Morsi was overthrown in mid-2013 by general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during mass protests against his rule, and immediately arrested. Tuesday’s ruling by the court of cassation means Morsi is no longer under threat of execution, although he is serving three long jail sentences. The Brotherhood, Egypt’s oldest political movement, says its activities are entirely peaceful and denies using violent methods.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 11:02 UTC