Police have named the assailant as 40-year-old itinerant man Joel Cauchi
Cairo - Ousted former Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday in a case related to charges of spying for Hamas.
The court also sentenced 17 defendants to life in prison, and 16 to death, including Muslim Brotherhood leaders Khairat El-Beltagy and Mohamed El-Beltagy, Al Ahram reported.
The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was also sentenced to 25 years in jail in the same case.
According to Egypt's penal code, life sentences are for 25 years.
In the espionage case, prosecutors charged Morsi and 35 other defendants with conspiring with foreign powers -- including Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guards -- to destabilise Egypt.
On May 16, the verdicts were referred to the Grand Mufti, the country's highest Islamic official who gives the religious judgment of all preliminary death sentences, for his opinion.
Presiding Judge Shabaan Al Shami said the Mufti's report agrees with the judges' panel opinion.
Earlier today, the court upheld the death sentence for Mursi over the 2011 mass prison break.
Egyptian authorities have banned Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood since his overthrow and arrested thousands of his supporters.
In April, a court sentenced Morsi and 12 other defendants to 20 years in prison for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters in clashes outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
Police have named the assailant as 40-year-old itinerant man Joel Cauchi
Family expresses condolences to the victims
The airline has already suspended flights to and from Tehran until April 18
All flights at Egyptian airports are according to the usual schedules, except for some flights heading to countries that have closed their airspace, said the govt
Air India and Vistara have announced avoidance of Iranian airspace and are taking longer flight paths for their Europe and US operations
Israel has a multi-layered air defence system that has intercepted thousands of rockets since it first went into operation in 2011
Police said there was no evidence to suggest Joel Cauchi was 'driven by any particular motivation, ideology or otherwise'
Tehran warned the United States on Sunday to 'stay away' from its conflict with Israel