A court in Cairo is seeking the death penalty for ousted Egyptian president, Mohammed Mursi and 105 additional members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group.
Khairat al-Shater, one of the movement’s top leaders, is among those sentenced.
They are being tried in connection with a mass prison break in 2011.
Mursi, Egypt’s first freely-elected president, was deposed by the then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in July 2013 following huge street protests against his policies. The Brotherhood – reinstated under his rule – was once more banned, with authorities arresting thousands of the movement’s followers.
The former leader refuses to recognise the authority of the courts, but is already serving a 20-year jail term for ordering the arrest and torture of dissidents during his 12-month rule.
Egypt: Mohamed Mursi condemned to 20 years in prison http://t.co/HdNkFPKkmZ pic.twitter.com/SEz7pS4R41— euronews (@euronews) April 21, 2015
Supporters of Mursi claim the charges against hi
