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Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to life on espionage charges

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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.




 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.