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Mahakama nchini Misri imefuata hukumu ya kifo aliyohukumiwa rais aliyepinduliwa mwaka 2013, Mohammed Morsi. Mahakama imeagiza kesi hiyo isikilizwe upya.
Morsi alikumiwa kifo baada ya kukutwa na hatia ya kuhusika kuwatorosha wafungwa wengi wakati wa mapinduzi ya mwaka 2011.
Alichaguliwa kuwa rais mwaka 2012 lakini akaondolewa na jeshi mwaka mmoja baadaye, kufuatia maandamano makubwa ya kupinga utawala wake.
Morsi ameshahukimiwa kifungo cha maisha jela kwa mashtaka yanayohusu ugaidi na bado anakabiliwa na mashtaka kwa makosa mengine.
Lakini mahakama imetengua hukumu ya kifo na kuamuru kesi hiyo kusikilizwa upya
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Egypt's Court of Cassation has overturned a death sentence against the country's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ordered a retrial, according to reports.
The country's first democratically elected president, Morsi was overthrown by a military coup in July 2013 after having served just one year of a four-year term.
The organisation to which he belonged, the Muslim Brotherhood, has since been outlawed. A government crackdown on the movement, as well as other groups, has resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and mass trials.
Morsi was tried in an Egyptian court on several charges, including one of escaping prison during the 2011 uprising against then-president Hosni Mubarak.
He was also accused of sharing state secrets with foreign powers, including Qatar. His defence argued that he was merely engaging all foreign entities within the limits that any head of state would.
Hundreds of death sentences
Morsi was given several sentences, including life, a 20-year prison term and the death penalty. He appealed against those sentences, but has already had the 20-year term confirmed by an Appellate Court.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have argued that the trials carried out by the government of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led the coup against Morsi, have been political in nature and violated the rights of thousands of Egyptians.
Mass trials have sentenced hundreds of Egyptians to death. Rights groups have also called attention to the prison abuse in Egypt's detention system.
Morsi himself has in the past abstained from eating prison food, out of fear for his life.
Source: Aljazeera