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Former Egyptian President Morsi Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

April 21, 2015

Deposed President Mohammed Morsi and 12 co-defendants have been sentenced to 20 years in maximum security prison for violence outside the Presidential Palace in December 2012.

The former President and all other defendants were acquitted by the Court on charges of incitement to murder protesters, but were found guilty of intimidation, general violence and torture of protesters. Two defendants received 10 years in prison.

The deposed President and Muslim Brotherhood member was among 15 high profile Muslim Brotherhood leaders on trial for the killing of protesters outside the Ittihadiya Presidential Palace in December 2012.

The violence outside the Presidential Palace resulted in the deaths of 10 people, including a journalist, and injuries of more than 700 others.

Morsi, who was deposed on July 3 after mass protests against his government, had won Egypt’s first free democratic elections since former Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.

Among other cases Morsi and numerous Muslim Brotherhood leaders are facing relate to charges of espionage and escape from prison during the January 25 revolution.

The former President is expected to appeal his 20 year prison sentence, said sources to state media Al-Ahram.

Comments (60)

  1. Ramez Magdy says:

    Hopefully we will see soon the true dictator sisi hanged , like Saddam and Ghaddafi. And hopefully Assad too, the mass murderer.

    1. Minymina says:

      Ramez, please suck on my Egyptian ball sack.

    2. Egyptian Canadian says:

      I will never understand why a scumbag like yourself keeps coming to this website with that other scumbag in your profile picture.

      Move to Turkey and fuck off already.

    3. Adam W says:

      Yeah all of them.. Along with Erdogan

    4. timgale says:

      History has know many great liars, but none like Erdogan.

    5. Ramez Magdy says:

      Dear tim, what has erdogan done bad for Turkey? yesterday he has opened a new metro line and the new airport in Istanbul. The people live there much better than in egypt. Here in Cairo, where I live, there are so many beggars who eat from garbage, etc., it is getting worse day by day with this filthy military regime

    6. timgale says:

      He’s an international laughing stock with newspapers around the world routinely reporting on his latest foot in mouth moment. For starters: he denies the Armenian genocide in the face of a massive amount of evidence and international consensus, he has no respect for Turkey’s secular constitution which is purely designed to protect the minority from the majority, he puts those who criticize him in prison, he buys into conspiracy theories claiming Muslims settled the Americas before the Spanish, and he’s doing nothing to help the international effort against ISIS. You write that he just opened a new metro line. You make it sound as if he paid for it, designed it, built it or was even President when all this happened, In reality, he just turned up and opened it before taking credit for something he had nothing to do with.