CAIRO: An Egyptian court recommended death sentences on Saturday for six codefendants of Mohamed Morsi but not for the ousted Islamist president in their trial on espionage charges.
The presiding judge in the trial asked the Mufti to consider death sentences for the six codefendants, saying the court would convene again on June 18 after the Mufti’s response.
It will then pronounce its verdict and sentence for the remaining five defendants, including Morsi, on charges of having supplied classified documents.
The six people who were sentenced to death include two Al Jazeera journalists over accusation of leaking state secrets to Qatar. The judgement will either be approved or reduced in June after consultations with Egypt’s mufti, the highest Sunni religious leader in the country. The court may or may not consider the mufti’s feedback, Al-Jazeera reported.
