A Cairo court on Tuesday sentenced former President Mohamed Mursi of Egypt to 20 years in prison. Judge Ahmed Sabry-Youssef read out the ruling against him and 12 other Brotherhood members, including senior figures Mohamed el-Beltagy and Essam el-Erian. He said they were convicted on charges of violence, kidnapping and torture stemming from the killing of protesters during demonstrations in 2012.
Sabry-Youssef said the convicts were acquitted of murder charges which carry the death sentence. A lawyer for some of the defendants said they would appeal. Morsi said he was determined to reverse what he called a military coup against him in 2013, staged by then Army Chief, now President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Amr Darrag, a former Minister under Morsi, said in a statement in Istanbul that “his trial has been a travesty of justice, which has been scripted and controlled by the government and entirely unsupported by evidence.’’
Morsi’s son, Osama, said his father plans a comeback in spite of the jail sentence Meanwhile, Morsi faces charges in four other cases, including leaking secrets to Qatar, and conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to destabilise Egypt. It also includes organising a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
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