Mohamed Morsi,Egypt's Ex-President sentenced to 20 years in prison

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced today Tuesday to 20 years in prison over the killing of demonstrators outside his palace in 2012.This is the the first verdict to be issued against the country’s first freely elected leader.
The verdict and sentence were given during a brief hearing in a crowded courtroom in a police academy on the outskirts of Cairo. The defendants in the case included several senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the same verdict, Morsi was acquitted of a murder charge for which he could have faced the death penalty.