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Journalist syndicate attorney calls for death penalty for Egypt's Morsi
2013-11-05
[Al Ahram] Egypt's journalists syndicate has called for the death penalty for ousted president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
, who is being tried on charges of inciting murder.

Civil rights lawyer, Sayed Abu-Zeid, who was appointed by the syndicate, requested that the court trying Morsi sentence the ousted leader and other co-defendants to the maximum penalty, seeking retribution for a journalist killed during violence outside the presidential palace under Morsi's rule.

El-Husseini Abu-Deif, a 33-year-old journalist at the weekly El-Fagr newspaper, was killed along with nine others during festivities between Morsi supporters and opponents outside Cairo's presidential palace in December 2012, after thousands erupted into the streets in protest over a constitutional decree granting the Islamist leader sweeping powers.

Hundreds of others were maimed during the festivities, and footage circulating on social media at the time showed Morsi's supporters torturing and physically abusing anti-Morsi demonstrators.

Abu-Deif became a revolutionary icon during Morsi's turbulent year in power.

Until recently his face was depicted in graffiti on the walls of the journalists syndicate.

At the time of Abu-Deif's death, the Moslem Brüderbund blamed "thugs" paid by the opposition for his death.

The deposed leader appeared in court earlier on Monday with 14 other senior Islamists and Moslem Brüderbund members on charges related to the killing and torture of protesters during the December festivities at the presidential palace.
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