Egypt: Mursi sentenced to 40 years in Qatar spy case

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiCPhAlsIgfsD35mXIG5B1Yux_3kSLk457Vv2crdL_BpI5vEhOXqMH2yhmWkffRkuKyWdWQFhyEbr_KKharxC-F-FRxRtxWfvyexKlF0I-dHVYQ2mKQuRss05dN9_JKXCWrzYmExAvzA/s1600/The+6th+October+Bridge+in+central+Cairo%252C+Egypt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cairo, Egypt" border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiCPhAlsIgfsD35mXIG5B1Yux_3kSLk457Vv2crdL_BpI5vEhOXqMH2yhmWkffRkuKyWdWQFhyEbr_KKharxC-F-FRxRtxWfvyexKlF0I-dHVYQ2mKQuRss05dN9_JKXCWrzYmExAvzA/s400/The+6th+October+Bridge+in+central+Cairo%252C+Egypt.jpg" title="Cairo, Egypt" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cairo, Egypt</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Court upholds death sentences against 6 other defendants for supplying Qatar with classified state documents under Mursi's rule</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced toppled Islamist president Mohammad Mursi to a total of 40 years in prison after convicting him of jeopardising national security by having passed classified state documents to Qatar when he was in power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Mursi to life in prison - a verdict equal to 25 years in Egypt - and 15 more years on 2 separate counts in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The verdict is the latest in a series of sentences against Mursi who is already on death row.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 ex-aides to Mursi were also given sentences of a total of 40 years in prison each in the same case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The court confirmed initial death sentences it passed last month against 6 more defendants in the case after the verdicts had been ratified by the country's top Islamic legal official, the Grand Mufti.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The accused deserve the penalty of death because they put the nation in danger," chief judge Mohammad Sherin quoted the mufti as saying in his advisory opinion to the court.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They obtained state secrets with the intention of divulging them to a foreign country. Thus, they breached trust," the top Muslim cleric added, referring to the convicts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Egyptian law requires the mufti to sign off on death sentences. His opinion is not binding, but is usually respected by courts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the rulings are subjected to appeal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The leaked documents were pertaining to the Egyptian army, its armament and concentrations, the chief judge added in a statement broadcast live on Egyptian television.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The session was held at a makeshift courtroom in the Police Academy outside Cairo.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Qatar is a staunch backer of Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood. Ties have soured between Egypt and Qatar since the army's 2013 ouster of Mursi following massive street protests against his 1-year rule. Hearings in this case, dubbed "espionage with Qatar", opened in February 2015.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mursi is already on death row after another court sentenced him to death last year in a separate case related to orchestrating a big prison escape during the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Mursi was also given a life sentence after being convicted of conspiring with foreign organisations for the jailbreak.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The "Qatar spying" trial is one of several in which Mursi is charged with multiple criminal charges. Mursi, a senior leader in the now-outlawed Brotherhood, is being tried in another case related to insulting the judiciary. The Islamist leader insists he remains the rightful president of Egypt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Gulf News, June 18, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Two Al-Jazeera journalists given death penalty by Egyptian court</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">6 people, including 2 Al-Jazeera journalists, have been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for allegedly passing documents relating to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Mohammed Morsi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The former Islamist president was also sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was ousted by the military in July 2013 and has already been sentenced to death in another case. Saturday's verdicts can be appealed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 2 Al-Jazeera employees - identified by the judge as news producer Alaa Omar Mohammed and news editor Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal - were sentenced in absentia along with Asmaa al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network widely suspected of links to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Brotherhood was banned and declared a terrorist group after Morsi was ousted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 3 other defendants sentenced to death on Saturday are documentary producer Ahmed Afify, EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany and academic Ahmed Ismail.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Egypt's relations with Qatar have been fraught with tension since the overthrow of Morsi, who enjoyed the support of the tiny but wealthy Gulf state. Cairo also maintains that Al-Jazeera's news coverage of Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East is biased in favor of militant Islamic groups.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last year, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi pardoned two imprisoned journalists from the Al-Jazeera English news network.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mohamed Fahmy, an Egyptian-born Canadian, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were arrested in December 2013. They were sentenced last year to 3 years in prison for airing what a court described as "false news" and coverage biased in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prosecution of the 2, along with Australian Peter Greste - deported in February last year - drew strong international condemnation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Their long-running trial was entangled from the start with the wider political enmity between Egypt and Qatar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: independent.ie, June 18, 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHruZxo0_xiO-LwEGi3eAOnFvi0FrwVKFmhJI2YGlqybjjsndKlga-X-rRj7qgsUU6_LiRgTbuSxzxyj2ZBvDn_qIrCrZpA5WRcADOz7XqLTdBEyhgMtTx6pZ9R2XP3bolVxyt2s28o7s/s1600/Reprieve+Juvenile+Offenders+on+DR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHruZxo0_xiO-LwEGi3eAOnFvi0FrwVKFmhJI2YGlqybjjsndKlga-X-rRj7qgsUU6_LiRgTbuSxzxyj2ZBvDn_qIrCrZpA5WRcADOz7XqLTdBEyhgMtTx6pZ9R2XP3bolVxyt2s28o7s/s400/Reprieve+Juvenile+Offenders+on+DR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seeing a child with a noose around their neck would make anyone turn away in horror. It's not something most people imagine is still happening. But it's likely there are hundreds of prisoners on death rows around the world who were detained as children - potentially as many as 800 in Pakistan alone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thousands of Reprieve supporters have already taken action to save the lives of Ibrahim Halawa in Egypt and Ali Al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia - both sentenced to death for attending political protests when they were children. Now we want to make sure other kids like them never end up on the world's death rows. Here's how we're going to do it together.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We're launching our dedicated Juveniles on Death Row Project - to find those detained as children who are now languishing on death row, and stop their executions. Together we can save many lives, but we urgently need extra funds to get this new project off the ground.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>All donations to Reprieve are being matched and will make twice the difference</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Act now - double your donation, double your impact.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://reprieve.bsd.net/page/contribute/double-your-impact" target="_blank">Donate now</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We know what a huge difference we can make on the ground, so your support right now will go a long way. Recently, a prisoner in Malawi was freed on the day of his court hearing after Reprieve staff found that his mental health assessment listed his age as 17, and even took place on the children's wing. He had been sentenced to death after the police beat him and forced him to sign a forged 'confession'.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But cases like this often just fall through the cracks - unless we're there to pick them up. With the funds we raise right now, we can work with our local partners to locate juveniles who are facing execution, investigate their cases and provide lawyers to take their cases to court. We can expose countries where children are being sentenced to death. We can save lives right now, and together we can apply public and legal pressure to stop it for good.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our Juveniles on Death Row Project is new and will be entirely funded by our supporters. Will you join those taking the lead in getting this project off the ground <a href="https://reprieve.bsd.net/page/contribute/double-your-impact" target="_blank">by making a donation now</a>?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All prisoners facing execution are at risk of extreme human rights abuses, but children are particularly vulnerable and in need of our help. They often face torture to extract false confessions and being put on trial for their life without proper legal representation. They end up on death row in adult prisons where conditions are brutal. They face years on death row, then the hangman's noose or the executioner's sword.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Anyone who cares about justice will agree that death row is no place for any child - so let's make sure we stop it for good.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have the law and public opinion on our side. The execution of people arrested as children is banned under international law and even domestic law in many countries - which gives us the chance to save lives right now and reduce execution rates worldwide.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We know we can make a difference when we're on the ground - and with your donations our Juveniles on Death Row Project can get our team to the frontline and increase our presence where we're needed most.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you to everyone who donates right now to help make this happen.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Matched Funding - how it works</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A group of Reprieve's generous supporters have put together a pot of 30,000 pounds to match any donations to Reprieve up to that amount - meaning that we can raise a total of 60,000 pounds to fund our work.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's simple - the more donations we receive, the more of the matched fund we will get, and the more people we can help.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: <a href="http://www.reprieve.org.uk/juveniles-on-death-row-project/" target="_blank">reprieve.org.uk</a>, June 2016</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Death-Penalty-News-206848499362906/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span></div></div>

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