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Egypt sentences Al-Jazeera journalists to death as Mohamed Morsi given new life term in Qatar espionage case
June 18, 2016
Two Al Jazeera journalists are among six people sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar.
Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian President, was sentenced to life in prison following what Amnesty International condemned as “fundamentally unfair” trials.
He was acquitted of supplying Qatar with classified documents but found guilty of leading an unlawful organisation, his lawyer told the AFP news agency.
Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said the former leader was also convicted of having “stolen secret documents concerning state security” and handed another 15-year jail term at the Cairo Criminal Court.
wo Al Jazeera journalists are among six people sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar.
Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian President, was sentenced to life in prison following what Amnesty International condemned as “fundamentally unfair” trials.
He was acquitted of supplying Qatar with classified documents but found guilty of leading an unlawful organisation, his lawyer told the AFP news agency.
Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said the former leader was also convicted of having “stolen secret documents concerning state security” and handed another 15-year jail term at the Cairo Criminal Court.
Egypt among the worst in press freedom: report
Judges issued their final ruling in the case on Saturday but the advice of Egypt’s Grand Mufti must still be sought before they are confirmed.
Prosecutors originally claimed that Morsi and his head of office, Ahmed Abdel-Ati, passed files to secretary Amin El-Serafy, who then passed them to his daughter, Karima, who gave them to agent, Ahram reported. They were all given life sentences of 25 years and additional 14-year terms.
The remaining defendants, including journalists and activists, were charged with colluding to pass classified documents to Al Jazeera, which is based in Doha, and a Qatari spy.
The former director of news at Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel, Ibrahim Helal, was sentenced to death alongside former correspondent Alaa Sablan after being accused of leaking national security documents to Qatar.
Neither defendant is in Egypt and they were tried in absentia.
Asmaa Alkhatib, a journalist with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rassd News Network, were also sentenced to death in absentia.
June 18, 2016
Two Al Jazeera journalists are among six people sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar.
Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian President, was sentenced to life in prison following what Amnesty International condemned as “fundamentally unfair” trials.
He was acquitted of supplying Qatar with classified documents but found guilty of leading an unlawful organisation, his lawyer told the AFP news agency.
Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said the former leader was also convicted of having “stolen secret documents concerning state security” and handed another 15-year jail term at the Cairo Criminal Court.
wo Al Jazeera journalists are among six people sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar.
Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian President, was sentenced to life in prison following what Amnesty International condemned as “fundamentally unfair” trials.
He was acquitted of supplying Qatar with classified documents but found guilty of leading an unlawful organisation, his lawyer told the AFP news agency.
Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said the former leader was also convicted of having “stolen secret documents concerning state security” and handed another 15-year jail term at the Cairo Criminal Court.
Egypt among the worst in press freedom: report
Judges issued their final ruling in the case on Saturday but the advice of Egypt’s Grand Mufti must still be sought before they are confirmed.
Prosecutors originally claimed that Morsi and his head of office, Ahmed Abdel-Ati, passed files to secretary Amin El-Serafy, who then passed them to his daughter, Karima, who gave them to agent, Ahram reported. They were all given life sentences of 25 years and additional 14-year terms.
The remaining defendants, including journalists and activists, were charged with colluding to pass classified documents to Al Jazeera, which is based in Doha, and a Qatari spy.
The former director of news at Al Jazeera’s Arabic channel, Ibrahim Helal, was sentenced to death alongside former correspondent Alaa Sablan after being accused of leaking national security documents to Qatar.
Neither defendant is in Egypt and they were tried in absentia.
Asmaa Alkhatib, a journalist with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rassd News Network, were also sentenced to death in absentia.
