{"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\/2016\/11\/egypt-court-quashes-morsi-life-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt court quashes Morsi life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"
Egypt’s highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.<\/p>\n
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
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
But he is still serving lengthy sentences related to two other cases.<\/p>\n
Morsi was elected president in 2012 but was removed by the military a year later after protests against his rule.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Egypt’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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":270576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[13810,13811,13812],"yoast_head":"\n