From Grace to grass: Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to LIFE in spying trial as six co-defendants get death penalty

Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced to life in prison in a spying trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties. The 64-year-old, who has been sentenced to death in a separate trial, was Egypt's first democratically elected president but the army overthrew him in 2013 and cracked down on his supporters. 

He was given life in prison yesterday for leading an unlawful organisation and 15 years for having 'stolen secret documents concerning state security,' his lawyer said.

But Morsi was acquitted of having supplied classified documents to Qatar, one of his main backers, Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud revealed.

The six defendants sentenced to death for helping to pass secret documents to Qatar include three journalists tried in absentia.- Daily mail