Mohamed Morsi's death sentence was overturned by Egypt's Court of Cassation on Tuesday and a new trial was ordered for the country's deposed president.
Morsi, who became the country's first democratically elected president in 2012 after the ouster of then president Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown by a military coup in July, 2013, Aljazeera reported. Morsi was part of the organization the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now outlawed in Egypt.
Morsi was tried on several charges, including one of escaping prison during the 2011 uprising against then-president Hosni Mubarak, and sharing state secrets with foreign powers, according to Aljazeera.
The BBC News reported that Court of Cassation also overturned the death sentences of five other Muslim Brotherhood members. The court stated that the men must be retried in connection with a large prison break connected with the 2011 uprising against Mubarak.
Morsi and more than 100 others received the initial death sentenced in May 2015 after they were convicted of conspiring with others from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement, to lead the prison break, according to the BBC News.
Morsi has been serving a life sentence for allegedly conspiring to commit terrorist acts with foreign organizations and to another 40 years for allegedly leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar.
He also was sentenced to 20 years after being convicted for ordering the detention and torture of opposition protesters during clashes with Brotherhood supporters outside a presidential palace in Cairo in December 2012.
Morsi, a U.S.-trained engineer and former lawmaker, became the fifth president of Egypt and the first outside of its military to take the office during the country's first democratic elections in June 2012, The New York Times reported. The election came 16 months after the military ousted Mubarak.
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