Egypt's Morsi sentenced to three years for insulting the judiciary
Egypt's
former president has been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting the
judiciary.
Mohammed
Morsi already holds other jail terms including a life sentence.
He is
awaiting a retrial on a separate charge of conspiring to commit terrorist acts,
for which he was previously sentenced to death. The death sentence was lifted
on appeal.
Mr Morsi was
overthrown by the military in 2013 and has been detained since. He is currently
in a high-security prison.
He has also
been fined a million Egyptian pounds (£42,000; $56,000) relating to a speech
given in 2013.
Also
sentenced on Saturday were 17 co-defendants, including fines for political
blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah and broadcaster Tawfiq Okasha.
Mr Morsi has
previously rejected the authority of the courts, and in his first trial shouted
from the dock that he was being "forcibly detained".
Since then
he has been forced to sit in soundproof glass cages in courtrooms, which
officials say are designed to prevent him disrupting proceedings.
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He was
overthrown by the military following mass protests a year after he took office
as the country's first democratically elected leader.
The
authorities subsequently launched a crackdown on supporters of Mr Morsi and the
Islamist movement to which he belongs, the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.
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