Morsi death sentence ruling postponed

An Egyptian court on Tuesday postponed its ruling over the death sentence for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders to 16 June.

Morsi and the Muslim Brothers were sentenced to death last month for killing and kidnapping policemen, attacking police facilities and escaping from the Wadi Natrun prison during the 2011 revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak.

The judge also postponed until 16 June his ruling on a separate case against Morsi, the political head of the Brotherhood Saad Katatni, its vicepresident Esam al Erian and the Islamist religious leader Yusuf al Qaradaui.

All of them were sentenced to death for conspiring with foreign militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah against Egypt.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the country's current president, said the Brotherhood posed a grave threat to national security.

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