CAIRO, Apr 23 (Aswat Masriya) - A Cairo court postponed on Saturday the sentencing of  former ousted president Mohamed Mursi, in a case where he and 10 other Muslim Brotherhood figures were charged with espionage with Qatar, to May 7.

The defendants are accused of leaking important national security documents and information on the Egyptian Armed Forces to Qatar during Mursi’s year in office, between Jun. 2012 and Jun. 2013.

The defendants include the former head of Mursi's office Ahmed Abdel Atti and Mursi's former personal secretary Amin El-Serafy.

Mursi, who became Egypt's president in June 2012 after the first democratic presidential elections in the country, was eventually ousted at the hands of the military following mass protests against his rule, after a year in power.

Since his ouster, he was featured in several trials where he faced an array of charges including other espionage charges, inciting to kill protesters outside the presidential palace during his tenure, insulting the judiciary and escaping prison during the January 2011 uprising.