Egypt court ‘needs more time’ on Morsi death ruling after receiving grand mufti’s opinion
An Egyptian court has postponed the announcement of the final ruling on the preliminary death sentence handed down to ousted President Mohamed Morsi, saying it needs another fortnight for deliberations.
“The final ruling will be on June 16 as the court has to complete its deliberations on the opinion of the mufti, which was received only this morning,” Judge Shabaan el-Shamy said Tuesday, referring to Shawki Allam, Egypt’s grand mufti, whose non-binding advice was sought in Morsi’s case.
El-Shamy did not reveal what the grand mufti’s opinion was.
Morsi has been on several trials since his ouster in the summer of 2013. The death sentence was issued in one of those trials in connection with a prison break during the uprising of 2011, which toppled longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The Cairo court gave the defendant the preliminary death penalty last month, and then referred the case to Allam, who is Egypt’s highest religious authority.
The court’s upcoming verdict could also be referred to an appeals court.
Morsi, who is affiliated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, became the country’s first democratically-elected president in 2012, but was ousted in a military coup in July 2013 led by the Mubarak-era army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who then led an interim government that crushed massive pro-Morsi protests, and who later became the new president of the country.
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