Egypt’s highest appeal court, the Court of Cassation, has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The court ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations. Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed to Morsi in a separate case revolving around a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution. But he is still serving lengthy sentences related to two other cases.
Morsi’s lawyer, Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud, confirmed the ruling, saying, “The verdict was full of legal flaws.”
In June, Morsi was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar.
He has also been sentenced to 20 years for ordering the unlawful detention and torture of opposition protesters in December 2012.
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