Cairo Criminal Court convicted former president Mohamed Morsi of defaming the judiciary in a speech he made while in office “with the aim of spreading hate,” and sentenced him and 19 others to three years in prison

Cairo Criminal Court convicted  former president Mohamed Morsi of defaming the judiciary in a speech he made while in office “with the aim of spreading hate,”  and sentenced him and 19 others to three years in prison

An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi and 19 others to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary. Morsi, democratically elected after Egypt’s 2011 revolution, was deposed following mass protests and a military coup in July 2013. He served just one year of a four-year term, while the organisation to which he belonged, the Muslim Brotherhood, has since been outlawed. A government crackdown on the movement, as well as other…

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