Mohammed Morsi’s death sentence confirmed

An Egyptian court has confirmed a death sentence handed to ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi for a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that brought him to power.

Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was in the courtroom in a glass-covered, mesh-wire cage. He listened to the verdict with a slight smile.

The ruling was read out by judge al-Shami after he consulted with Egypt’s Mufti, a religious authority affiliated with the judiciary, as required by law in cases involving capital punishment.