Egypt's former president Mursi get 2nd death sentence

Cairo: An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted president Muhammad Mursi and five others to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV network during his short-lived term.
It was the second death sentence for Mursi, who was slapped the maximum penalty in June 2015 for plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising.
He was also sentenced last year to life in prison on charges of spying for the Palestinian Hamas movement, Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah, and Iran.
Saturday’s verdicts can be appealed.
Two Al-Jazeera employees — identified by the judge as news producer Alaa Omar Mohammed and news editor Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal — were among those sentenced in absentia along with Asmaa Al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network widely suspected of links to Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Mursi became Egypt’s fifth president and the country's first democratically elected leader in 2012 but he held office only from June 30, 2012 to July 3, 2013. Following growing protests against Egypt’s slide toward extremism under Mursi, the military removed him in a bloody intervention that installed army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to power.