{"id":270570,"date":"2016-11-22T08:38:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T08:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270570"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T08:38:32","slug":"egypt-court-quashes-morsi-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270570","title":{"rendered":"Egypt court quashes Morsi life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Egypt&#8217;s highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed to Morsi in a separate case revolving around a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>But he is still serving lengthy sentences related to two other cases.<\/p>\n<p>Morsi was elected president in 2012 but was removed by the military a year later after protests against his rule.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations. Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed to Morsi in a separate case revolving around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":270576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[13810,13811,13812],"class_list":["post-270570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-egypt-court","tag-mohammed-morsi","tag-mohammed-morsi-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}