160 Muslim scholars call on Saudi king to save Morsi

As many as 160 Muslim scholars have signed a statement calling on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz to intervene and lift the death sentence issued against the country’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi.

The signatories described the death sentence against Morsi and his supporters as “unjust, issued through politicised trials”.

The statement said what happens in Egypt “is not an internal affair for Egypt alone, but it is an affair that would affect the Arab and Islamic nations as a whole.”

The statement said the sentences against Morsi were politically motivated and had no relation to the law as they include misleading information.