Dismissed in 2013 by the army, he was sentenced Tuesday to Cairo to have been involved in the arrest and torture of protesters. However, it is acquitted of incitement to murder charges that could earn him the death penalty.
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was sentenced aujourd ay to 20 years in prison for incompressible “incitement to murder” of protesters in December 2012, more than 20 months after his dismissal by former army chief and current president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
verdict, the first issued against the Islamist leader since his dismissal by the army in July 2013, was announced during a televised hearing.
Mohamed Morsi, who was the first democratically elected president in Egypt, in June 2012, has the opportunity to appeal. Twelve other executives of the Muslim Brotherhood, including Mohamed El Beltagy and Essam el Erian, were sentenced to the same penalty.
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