CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties.

Morsi, 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.

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