Former Egyptian president, President morsi, sentenced to death.

The first democratically elected President of Egypt, President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to death by an Egyptian court in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.

Also sentenced to death by the same court were another 105 members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The defendants were accused of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the uprising that overthrew the former military dictator, Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Prior to this death sentence, President morsi had been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on  charges linked to the killing of protesters outside a Cairo presidential palace in 2012.

The cases, like any capital sentence, will be referred to Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for his non-binding opinion before any executions can take place.

Muslim Brotherhood official Amr Darrag, while talking to Reuters has condemned the ruling saying:

"This is a political verdict and represents a murder crime that is about to be committed, and it should be stopped by the international community,”

Human rights groups have accused Egyptian authorities of widespread abuses in a crackdown on Brotherhood supporters as well as secular activists, allegations they deny.