An Egyptian court confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against former president Mohamed Mursi on Saturday, according to reports.
It is the first final verdict against Mursi, sentenced for a conviction arising from the killings of protesters during demonstrations in 2012. He cannot appeal further against it.
Twenty-year jail sentences were also confirmed against other senior figures from the then-ruling Muslim Brotherhood, including Mohamed el-Beltagy and Essam el-Erian.
Mursi, Egypt‘s first democratically elected president, faces charges in other cases including leaking secrets to Qatar, conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to destabilize Egypt, and organizing a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
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