Former Egyptian president sentenced to 20 years in prison
Egypt's former president Mohamed Morsi has been found guilty of inciting his supporters to use violence against opposition demonstrators outside his palace in 2012 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The verdict is the first to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader and was issued in a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo.
At least ten Muslim Brotherhood supporters died in the protests that followed Egypt's 2011 revolution, resulting in the jailing of thousands of Islamist opponents.
However, Morsi and 14 co-defendants were acquitted of murder charges, which would have been punishable by execution.
The sentence has been controversial, with Amnesty International calling into question the "independence and impartiality in Egypt's criminal justice system" and labeling the legal process fundamentally flawed.
Amr Darrag, a senior figure from the Muslim Brotherhood and a former minister under Morsi agreed, saying: "His trial has been a travesty of justice, which has been scripted and controlled by the government and entirely unsupported by evidence.”
Morsi is being held at a maximum-security prison close to Alexandria, following fourth months of detention at an undisclosed location.