{"id":1792,"date":"2016-11-27T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T01:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2016-11-21T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T01:59:32","slug":"egypt-repeals-morsis-death-sentence-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/egypt-repeals-morsis-death-sentence-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt repeals Morsi\u2019s death sentence \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161115-egypt-repeals-morsis-death-sentence\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/mohammed-morsi-10-in-court-for-Qatar-espionage-charge-June-21-2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Egypt court today accepted the appeals of former President Mohamed Morsi and the leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in the case of \u201cstorming the prisons\u201d, revoking the death sentences and jail\u00a0 terms issued to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Cassation held a session which lasted only a few minutes today, it did not hear any new evidence but was satisfied with notes from previous hearings and a memorandum from the Public Prosecution which recommended the court accept the appeals and cancel the verdicts.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict affects 129 defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants were being tried for storming Egyptian prisons and attacking security and police installations and officers during the January 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud, the Brotherhood\u2019s lawyer, said the Court of Cassation had applied the law correctly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling was expected because [Morsi\u2019s conviction] was legally flawed, and we are waiting for the retrial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161115-egypt-repeals-morsis-death-sentence\/\">Egypt repeals Morsi\u2019s death sentence \u2013 Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egypt court today accepted the appeals of former President Mohamed Morsi and the leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood group in the case of \u201cstorming the prisons\u201d, revoking the death sentences and jail\u00a0 terms issued to them. The Court of Cassation held a session which lasted only a few minutes today, it did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,272],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-president-morsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}