Six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court on Saturday after being found guilty of leaking national security documents under ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s regime, according to the Associated Press.
{mosads}Morsi and two of his aides were also sentenced to 25 years in prison in the case. The former president and one of his secretaries also received an additional 15-year sentence for a lesser crime.
Morsi is currently appealing three other convictions, including a death sentence.
The two Al-Jazeera employees, news producer Alaa Omar Mohammed and editor Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal, were sentenced in absentia along with another defendant who works for a media outlet suspected of links to the Muslim Brotherhood.