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Mursi was
sentenced to death in June 2015 in connection with a mass jail
break during Egypt's 2011 uprising.
Mursi, the first president to be democratically elected after
the revolution, was overthrown in mid-2013 by
general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following mass
protests against his rule, and immediately arrested.
Tuesday's court ruling means he is no longer under threat of
execution, although he is serving three lengthy jail sentences.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on charges
arising from the killing of protesters in December 2012. He was
also sentenced to 40 years on charges of spying for Qatar and
handed a life sentence on charges of spying for the Palestinian
Islamist group Hamas.
Since toppling Mursi, Sisi has tried to crush the Brotherhood,
which he says is part of a terrorist network that poses an
existential threat to the Arab and Western worlds.
The Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest political movement, says its
activities are entirely peaceful and denies using violent
methods.
(Reporting by Haitham Ahmed; Writing by Asma Alsharif; Editing
by Kevin Liffey)
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