The court sought the death penalty for Mursi and more than 100 supporters of his banned Muslim Brotherhood group in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.
(Reporting by Stephen Kalin; Editing by Michael Georgy and David Clarke)Amnesty calls Mursi death sentence bid in Egypt 'a charade'
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