Cairo Criminal Court referred the case of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 105 others to the Grand Mufti of Egypt on Saturday, for his non-binding opinion of executing the defendants, Sky News Arabia reported. Morsi and 105 co-defendants are accused of jailbreak during the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Court has designated the session of June 2, to issue its final verdict against the defendants. At the same session, the court referred as well the case of 16 top leaders of Muslim Brotherhood (MB), to the Grand Mufti, including the Deputy Supreme Guide of MB, Khairat Al Shater, Mohamed Al Beltagy, Saad Al Katatny, Mahmoud Ezzat, Salah Abdel Maksoud, chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Yusuf Al Qaradawi and others, over being part of a conspiring group to destabilize Egypt involving foreign powers, the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Referring the case to the Grand Mufti means that the court is on its way to issue death penalty against the defendant, but it refers to the opinion of the highest religious institution in the country, Dar El Ifta'a, to uphold the death sentence according to the Islamic Sharia. The Mufti's opinion is non-binding on the Court. Morsi had received a life prison sentence, 20-year prison, past April, over killing the protestors of Ittihadiya Palace sit-in during his tenure in December 2012.
