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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer Egyptian president Morsi sentenced to death
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An Egyptian court has pronounced death sentences on ousted president Mohammed Morsi and more than 100 other people over a mass prison break in 2011.
Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while in power.
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Former Egyptian president Morsi sentenced to death (Original Post)
shenmue
May 2015
OP
A reminder that the deaths in the 2013 Raba Square massacre rivaled the deaths in Tiananmen Square
Chathamization
May 2015
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LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)1. Sounds legit
Very democratic too. Don't like the elected leader? Execute a coup and then just kill him
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)3. That is what they did, yes...disgusting. n/t
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)2. You're fired.
"Um ... we look at the word "severance" a little different here."
malaise
(267,784 posts)4. Imagine that - the only elected President of Egypt is sentenced to death
Western backed dictators rule.
Chathamization
(1,638 posts)5. A reminder that the deaths in the 2013 Raba Square massacre rivaled the deaths in Tiananmen Square
Yet we're still sending weapons to the bloodthirsty dictators responsible and refusing to call their coup a coup?
This is why the U.S. government isn't taken seriously when it's talking about Human Rights.