An Egyptian Court has upheld the death sentence given to former President Mohammed Morsi last month on charges of helping to orchestrate a jailbreak in 2011.
Morsi, along with over 100 others, was initially sentenced to death in May. Consultation with the country’s highest religious figure, The Grand Mufti, in the past month has confirmed the sentence.
Followers of Morsi have described the sentence as ‘farcical.’
Morsi escaped from Wadi El-Natrun Prison in 2011, along with 33 other Muslim Brotherhood activists, during the revolution that led to the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.
He was also sentenced to life in prison today for spying on behalf of foreign militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, who, along with The Muslim Brotherhood, are thought to be responsible for the jailbreak.
He served as the first democratically-appointed President of Egypt for just over a year before being deposed by former army chief and current president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Morsi is already serving a 20-year sentence for ordering the arrests and torture of demonstrators who protested against his rule.