CAIRO: An Egyptian Court on Saturday sentenced life in prison to Egypt’s former president Mohammad Morsi over spying charges.
According to details, Morsi was facing the espionage charges for foreign militant groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and divulging state secrets to Qatar.
In this case, his six accomplices were given capital punishment. Three of them are journalists who were tried in absentia and convicted of supplying secret documents to Qatar.
Incidentally, the media personnel who were handed over death sentence also include a female reporter identified as Asmaa Mohammad al-Khatib. She is associated with Rassd, a news outlet reportedly inclined towards Muslim Brotherhood.