Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Sentenced to 20 Years Behind Bars

The ex-Islamist President Mohamed Morsi has been sentenced on Tuesday by an Egyptian criminal court to 20 years in prison, as he killed the protesters in 2012. It was the first verdict made against the country's first elected leader, according to mashable.com.

The Cairo Criminal Court announced the sentence as Morsi and other defendants stood in a soundproof glass cage within a temporary courtroom at Egypt's national police academy. The prisoners were standing inside a metal and glass cage inside the courtroom, in white and blue jumpsuits. Throughout the court hearings, they put up their hands, to show the four-finger salute, which was used by Islamists to "commemorate" the 2013 killings of hundreds of Morsi's supporters in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, Cairo, according to theguardian.

In December 2012, there was violence outside the presidential palace, in which Morsi's supporters attacked the opposition, triggering clashes that put an end to 10 people.

After he was overthrown in 2013, Morsi, along with thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members was put up against several other cases. He was held at a high-security prison near Alexandria, the Mediterranean city.