An Egyptian court has sentenced the former president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death, for mass prison break in the 2011 uprising.

According to Yahoo News, the court judge Shabaan El-Shamy handed down the sentence to more than 100 others, this included Mohamed Badei, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Khairat al-Shater. Moreover, gunmen shot dead the two judges, a prosecutor and the driver in the Sinai Peninsula. It was the first suh attack on judiciary in the triangular peninsula in Egypt, the report added.

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The final decision will be pronounced on June 2. Furthermore, the ex-president and the others will be referred to the grand mufti, the highest official of religious law in the country.

Amnesty International, a human rights organization in London, condemned the decision and said the decision is "the deplorable state of the country's criminal justice system." Amnesty International has been condemning death penalty as it aims to abolition death sentence. "The death penalty has become the favourite tool for the Egyptian authorities to purge the political opposition," the organization added.

Meanwhile, assistant professor of history Abdullah al-Arian of Georgetown University in Qatar said that death penalty was no surprise, Al Jazeera reported. "With these highly politicised trials that contravene all standards of justice, the judiciary is doing its part to cement a new political reality in Egypt, one that seeks to silence all dissent and restore the full strength of the authoritarian system that was in place for decades," Arian said.

The supporters of the former Egyptian president condemned the verdict. Furthermore, the former minister in Morsi's administration Amr Darrag said that it was one of the darkest days in the history of Egypt, "These latest charges are another deeply disturbing attempt to permanently erase democracy and the democratic process in Egypt," Darrag said.

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