An Egyptian court has sentenced the former president Mohamed Morsi to death over a mass prison break in 2011.
The verdict was announced in Cairo.
Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 following days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.
The ousted leader already is serving a 20-year sentence following his conviction on 21 April on charges linked to the killing of protesters outside a Cairo presidential palace in December 2012.
As is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban el-Shami referred his death sentence on Morsi and more than 20 others to the nation’s top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his non-binding opinion.
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