An Egyptian court has overturned the death sentence agaist the country's deposed former president Mohamed Morsi, ordering a retrial.
The Court of Cessation's ruling on Tuesday reverses a lower court's June 2015 decision to sentence him to death for his role in jail breaks during the country's 2011 uprising, which deposed long-standing president Hosni Mubarak.
Mr Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president - was overthrown in a military coup in July 2013, just one year into his four-year term.
Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party - a pan-Arab Islamist movement previously headquarted in Egypt - has since been outlawed, and tens of thousands of supporters arrested and imprisoned.
Five of his co-defendants, including the Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie, will also be re-tried, and 21 more life sentences handed down to Muslim Brotherhood members were struck down.
In October an appeals court upheld Mr Morsi's 20-year sentence on charges related to the killing of protesters in December 2012. He still awaits trial on other terrorism and spying related charges.
Egypt has been plagued by political upheaval and episodes of violence since the Arab Spring protests of 2011. Human Rights Watch has condemed current leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's rule as a "human rights crisis" in which the freedoms of journalists, activists and other dissenters against the government are routinely violated.
A recent report from the watchdog claimed Egypt's prisons routinely use torture and degrading treatment which has contributed to prisoners' deaths.
