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An Egyptian court has overturned the death sentence agaist Egypt's deposed former president Mohamed Morsi, ordering a retrial. An Egyptian court has overturned the death sentence agaist the country's deposed former president Mohamed Morsi, ordering a retrial.
Mr Morsi was overthrown in 2013 in protests which led to an army-led coup. The Court of Cessation's ruling on Tuesday reverses a lower court's June 2015 decision to sentence him to death for his role in jail breaks during the country's 2011 uprising, which deposed long-standing president Hosni Mubarak. 
Mr Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president - was overthrown in a military coup in July 2013, just one year into his four-year term.
Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party - a pan-Arab Islamist movement previously headquarted in Egypt - has since been outlawed, and tens of thousands of supporters arrested and imprisoned. 
Five of his co-defendants, including the Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie, will also be re-tried, and 21 more life sentences handed down to Brotherhood members were struck down. 
In October an appeals court upheld Mr Morsi's 20-year sentence on charges related to the killing of protesters in December 2012. 
The country has been plagued by political upheaval and episodes of violence since the Arab Spring protests of 2011. 
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