(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Morocco's ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) on Tuesday called for "reconciliation" in Egypt following a recent spate of death sentences.
The party "has heard with deep regret of the death sentences handed down against a number of political and civilian leaders, including former President Mohamed Morsi and Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars," the party said in a statement.
The PJD went on to warn that the death sentences "would do nothing but fuel sedition and instability" in Egypt.
"The crisis in Egypt is political, not legal or security-related, which requires a political solution, not vengeance," the party said.
It went on to urge all parties in Egypt "to launch an initiative for national reconciliation".
On Saturday, an Egyptian court referred 122 defendants, including Morsi € Egypt's first freely elected President € to the grand mufti to consider possible death sentences against them on charges of jailbreak and espionage.
The opinion of the mufti € Egypt's top religious authority € is not binding on the court, but Egyptian law makes it necessary for judges to seek a religious point of view on all death sentences handed out.
The court is set to confirm the verdicts on June 2.
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