Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's life sentence quashed
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[QUOTE]Egypt's highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organisations.
Last week, the court quashed a death sentence handed to Morsi in a separate case revolving around a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution.
But he is still serving lengthy sentences related to two other cases.
Morsi became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012, but he was removed by the military a year later after mass protests against his rule.
Since then, the authorities have launched a crackdown on Morsi's Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, that has seen hundreds of people killed in clashes with security forces and tens of thousands imprisoned.[/QUOTE]
I don't know much about the situation in Egypt but apparently Morsi was trying to push Islamic legislation which would've infringed on critics/other religious minorities.
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;51410458]I don't know much about the situation in Egypt but apparently Morsi was trying to push Islamic legislation which would've infringed on critics/other religious minorities.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but that's only half of the story. The old government returned to power after the coup and launched the Muslim Brotherhood crackdown to get rid of what has been a thorn in their side for a very long time. After the crackdown some of the Islamists that followed the Muslim Brotherhood turned to violence, which the Brotherhood generally avoided in spite of their otherwise backwards ideology. On top of that the conflict in Libya has spilled over into Egypt a little bit, and the country is a dictatorship again and will probably continue to be one for a long, long time. Western relations with Egypt have also suffered.
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;51410569]Yeah but that's only half of the story. The old government returned to power after the coup and launched the Muslim Brotherhood crackdown to get rid of what has been a thorn in their side for a very long time. After the crackdown some of the Islamists that followed the Muslim Brotherhood turned to violence, which the Brotherhood generally avoided in spite of their otherwise backwards ideology. On top of that the conflict in Libya has spilled over into Egypt a little bit, and the country is a dictatorship again and will probably continue to be one for a long, long time. Western relations with Egypt have also suffered.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, I agree that there's been a lot of power play involved.
The arab spring to me has turned into the Arab brainrot... im so disappointed how shitty all of this has turned and i cant really figure out why... Did the west not support them enough? too much support? were the people just culturally susceptible to extremism???
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