| Not that this matters -- he has already been sentenced for a long time for a number of other misbehaviours, and each case has to go all the way up to the supreme court, sentence be approved by the chief religious authority then, if I understand correctly, repeat part of the process. For each case. Former President Morsi will be shuttling between prison and the courthouse for the rest of his earthly existence unless he is released as an act of Ramadan mercy or the Moslem Brotherhood somehow takes power and releases him along with the rest of their people. Ditto for the rest of the Moslem Brotherhooders on trial with or without him. |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced former Islamist President Mohammed Mursi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six co-defendants were handed death penalties.The court acquitted Mursi of charges of having supplied Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
with classified documents but sentenced him to life for leading an unlawful organization, his lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud told AFP.
The ousted president was also convicted of having "stolen secret documents concerning state security" and handed another 15-year jail term, the lawyer added.
Mursi was ousted by the military in July 2013 and has already been sentenced to death in another case.
The court also confirmed death sentences against six defendants, including three journalists tried in absentia who allegedly helped relay secret documents to Qatar.
The journalists have been identified as Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal and Jordanian citizen Alaa Omar Mohammed Sablan, both of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
channel.
The third has been named as Asmaa Mohammed al-Khatib, a female news hound with pro-Moslem Brüderbund news outlet Rassd.