article_snippet.sent: But a court in Egypt's capital Cairo acquitted the 63-year-old leader of charges that would have seen Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi face the death penalty.
article_snippet.sent: But a court in the country's capital Cairo cleared the defendants on charges of inciting murder over the deaths of a journalist and two protesters during the December 5, 2012 clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo.
article_snippet.sent: Other Brotherhood leaders have been sentenced to death and Tuesday's decision to acquit Morsi on the incitement to murder charge was unexpected. '
article_snippet.sent: We were expecting Other Brotherhood leaders to be convicted of murder,' Ramy Ghanem, a lawyer for an anti-Morsi protester who was wounded in the clashes, told AFP.
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of Morsi supporters have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials which the United Nations has called 'unprecedented in recent history'.
article_snippet.sent: Morsi is facing two other trials in which Morsi could face the death penalty, including one that sees Morsi accused of spying for foreign powers.
article_snippet.sent: In November, a court dropped murder charges against Mubarak in Mubarak own trial over the deaths of hundreds of protesters in 2011.
highlights_snippet.sent: But the former leader was cleared of charges that would have seen the former leader face death penalty .
  