BREAKING - Egypt's ousted President Morsi sentenced to death over prison break

Before the no linky you stinky people come, here it is. Meanwhile we had 4 judges killed in North Sinai, the snackbars are taking their revenge, bracing myself for more after this death sentence. That reminds me, maybe I should go stock up on essentials...(beer and toilet paper)

[link to www.bbc.com]

An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.

Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while in power.

Egypt's religious authorities will now have to give their opinion before the sentence can be carried out.

Morsi's supporters from his Muslim Brotherhood movement have described the charges against him as "farcical".

He was deposed by the military in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule.

Since then, the authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and arrested thousands of his supporters.

Nobody forces you to read it, the Forum is big enough, many others care.

Amnesty is already screaming...US State Dept. Dollah's talk quickly

Hanging?

Yes that's how death sentences are carried out here...but not so fast.

[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

Lawyer is planning an appeal

Morsi represented a large part of the Egyptian population. How do they respond to this?

He doesn't have that large of a following anymore, I've been over this alot how the election went down. He lost alot of supporters during his Presidency and afterwards when his terrorists unleashed hell, and so they did since his ouster. The only response of course will be violence as usual.

Thanks for the pin Mods!

Probably won't look too good for the University of Southern California to have a graduate sentenced to death.

No penalty for H Clinton or Obama for supporting this maggot, eh? Well, it's a start.


What up, Bes? :)
I check in once in a while, via OPC, out of curiosity.
Hope you're doing well!

Oh well...

That's not up to us unfortunately

Good to see you, I'm fine hope you're well too!

Egyptian judges shot dead in Sinai hours after Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death


Three Egyptian judges have been shot dead hours after deposed former president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to death.

Police said the judges were travelling in a car in the city of al-Arish, Sinai, when it was attacked by suspected Islamist gunmen.

An fourth person was killed and at least three more were injured in the assault.

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read (lots) more here with pictures and video

[link to www.independent.co.uk]

Brotherhood official condemns Mursi verdict, urges international action

Muslim Brotherhood official Amr Darrag condemned an Egyptian court's decision on Saturday to seek the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi and called on the international community to take action.

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[link to www.egyptindependent.com]

I wish we were offering more assistance to what your government is trying to do. Those of us who pay attention to something other than our mainstream media wish you well...

Your current President el-Sisi is a true reformer and he has my prayers as do your people.

and I thank you for this!!!

Thank you very much davvi

Insane!

The 1st Democratically elected president of
Egypt to be executed!

welcome!

Yes, I mentioned that in my post - thanks for the link

I hope this is sarcasm, otherwise, this too I have discussed ad nausea on this Forum.

An election under military rule and how things were at this point and basically being held at gunpoint (i.e. threats from the MB's and Islamists if Morsi doesn't win there will be blood in the streets of Egypt etc.), you can hardly call that "democratic elections" - not to mention how many boycotted, less than 1/3 of the electorate actually voted for him, and only because they didn't want Shafiq as they saw him as a old Regime guy.

hitler was "democratically elected" too. why should that matter if the man is a murderous criminal?

Last Edited by beeches on 05/16/2015 12:52 PM

And if you look what he received the death sentence for...a criminal who broke out of prison during January 25 Revolution with help of foreign agents (Hamas) incl. about 20,000 others...and then as a "fugitive" runs for President. And he was the 2nd choice after first MB guy Shater was disqualified due to his criminal past and another Islamist due to his parent's dual US citizenship.

As a reminder:
[link to english.ahram.org.eg]

i hope they televise it

I don't suppose there's any chance Zahi Hawass will get the same sentence?

Probably no chance, since I think Nat Geo is still supporting him (he knows about too many of the skeletons in their closet).

I don't really want to see him hanged though.

A global lifetime ban against appearing on television ever again would be really cool though.

aHEMagain

ps: what was it about this prison break that makes it worthy of the death penalty?

Last Edited by aHEMagain^2 on 05/16/2015 01:05 PM

It was also a charge of conspiring with a foreign group, namely Hamans, 20,000 prisoners were released, many Islamists and banned MB guys, and they are directly responsible for alot of the violence that happened. You can read the articles it give a bit more details.

His lawyer said he will wait for Morsi's decision if he wants to appeal. If not, June 2nd will be final verdict if the Mufti approves. They never televise executions.

And here we go...

bomb exploded outside Fayoum church (southwest of Cairo) - no injuries.

More details here

[link to english.ahram.org.eg]

Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday issued a preliminary death sentence to former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and 105 other defendants in the trial known in the Egyptian media as the Natroun jailbreak case.

The court has sent its decision in the Natroun case to the country's grand mufti, a senior Muslim cleric, for a consultative review as required by Egyptian law, setting 2 June as a date for a final verdict.

The court also issued a preliminary death sentence to Brotherhood leaders Mohamed El-Beltagy and Khairat El-Shater along with 14 others in the trial known as the "Hamas espionage case."

The court also sent its decision in this case to the grand mufti for a consultative review. The deadline for a final verdict is also 2 June.

In the Natroun jailbreak case, the prosecution charged Morsi and co-defendants with damaging and setting fire to prison buildings, murder, attempted murder, looting prison weapons depots and releasing prisoners.

The prisoners, who broke out of jail in 2011, include members of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Lebanon's Hezbullah, jihadists, Muslim Brotherhood members and varied criminals, according to the prosecution.