Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death

“The ruling applies to another 120 people, and is the latest in a series of mass death sentences handed down since the military overthrew Morsi nearly two years ago. It will likely further polarize Egypt, a longtime U.S. ally grappling with an Islamist insurgency that has intensified since Morsi’s overthrow. Supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, now outlawed and branded a terrorist group, chanted ‘down, down with military rule’ as the judge announced the verdict in a converted lecture hall in the national police academy. Amnesty International also denounced the verdicts, saying ‘the death penalty has become the favorite tool for the Egyptian authorities to purge the political opposition.'”

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