An Egyptian court has overturned the death sentence of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, the BBC reports.
Morsi and 130 others, including dozens of members of the Palestinian movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, are accused of escaping from prison and attacking police during the 2011 uprising against then-President Hosni Mubarak.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was ousted by a military coup led by current president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in July 2013, following mass street demonstrations demanding his resignation after just a year in power.
After Morsi was ousted, the new government began a crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood movement, in which hundreds of people were killed and thousands imprisoned.
Sisi has pledged to root out the Muslim Brotherhood, an 87-year-old movement that won elections between the fall of Mubarak and Morsi's May 2012 presidential victory.
Egyptian authorities declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization in December 2013, and mere verbal support for the movement is threatened with severe prison sentences.
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