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Senior State Council judges to meet Sisi over judicial authority crisis

Apr 04 2017
Egypt
Source: 
Egypt Independent

The Emergency General Assembly of the State Council commissioned on Monday the special council, which is the highest administrative authority of the State Council under the chairmanship of Judge Mohamed Massoud, to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over the crisis of amendments to the Judicial Authority Law.

Egypt court overturns Mohamed Morsi's life sentence

Nov 22 2016
Egypt
Source: 
Al Jazeera

Egypt's Court of Cassation orders retrial in the case for deposed president who had a death sentence overturned earlier.

Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi has had a life sentence overturned by the country's Court of Cassation, which ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around accusations of espionage with Palestinian group Hamas.

Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, had a death sentence overturned by the same court last week and a retrial was ordered.

Egypt's Mohamed Morsi has death sentence overturned

Nov 15 2016
Egypt
Source: 
Al Jazeera

Court overturns sentence against Egypt's first democratically elected president and orders a retrial.

Egypt's court of cassation has overturned a death sentence against the country's deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ordered a retrial, according to reports.

The country's first democratically elected president, Morsi was overthrown by a military coup in July 2013 after having served just one year of a four-year term.

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