Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was sentenced to death Saturday for his role in breaking out of prison during the 2011 revolutionary protests and violence that became known as the “Arab Spring.”
Morsi ousted then-president Hosni Mubarak in 2011, becoming Egypt’s first democratically elected president, and then was ousted himself in 2013 by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a continuing string of suppression and military-backed violence that doused hopes for meaningful democratic reforms in the country.
Mubarak was set free from prison last weekend.
