Egypt court upholds 3-year jail term for ex-President Morsi
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five other defendants were ordered to pay a fine of 30000 egyptian pounds each in the case1 dpanan egypts top appeals court on monday upheld a three-year prison sentence and hefty damages on deposed islamist president mohammed morsi on charges of insulting the judiciary state media reported1 the initial sentence was issued in 2017 by the cairo criminal court that convicted morsi of defaming the judiciary in a televised speech he made in 2013 when he was in power1 in his speech morsi accused a judge of overseeing fraud in previous elections1 the criminal court had also ordered morsi to pay one million egyptian pounds 56270 dollars in damages to that judge1 the court of cassation also confirmed the same sentence for 19 other defendants in the same case1 they include alaa abdel-fatah a leading pro-democracy campaigner who rose to prominence during the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time dictator hosny mubarak1 morsi egypts first democratically elected president was toppled by the army in mid-2013 following mass protests against his rule1 he has been tried in several different cases since his ouster1 morsi is serving a final sentence of 20 years in prison in a separate case related to inciting deadly attacks on anti-islamist protesters in 20121 in 2017 the court of cassation upheld a separate 25-year jail sentence for morsi on charges of harming national security by leaking secret state documents to his ally qatar while he was in office1