Egypt Court Overturns Death Sentences in Mursi's Prison Break Case

15 November 2016

Cairo — Egypt's Cassation Court overturned on Tuesday the death sentences handed down to former president Mohamed Mursi and other Muslim Brotherhood figures in the Wadi Natroun prison break case, and ordered a retrial.

In June 2015, a Cairo criminal court sentenced Mursi and five other Brotherhood members including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and Saad al-Katatni, to death over charges of murder and attempted murder of policemen, torching government buildings, and escaping prison, in January 2011.

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