The deposed former Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, is set to spend the next two decades in prison following his sentencing on Tuesday. Morsi was sentenced for inciting violence. However, he was found innocent of inciting the killings during demonstrations just before he was ousted in 2013.

Had he been found guilty of the killings his sentence would have included an obligatory punishment by death.

The judgement was passed in a temporary high security courtroom located at the North African country’s police academy. The sentencing marks the first legal determination against the country’s former president, who faces four other trials coming from his 12 months in office before being deposed in a military coup two years ago.

Morsi was Egypt’s first democratically-elected president after a general uprising almost five years ago that ousted long-serving leader, Hosni Mubarak. The ex-president, together with other high-ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, his political party, were found responsible for inciting violence and unlawful imprisonments.

They were also found guilty of threatening demonstrators who had congregated outside the main presidential palace in Cairo in December 2012. The protesters had gathered in opposition to a presidential decree giving Morsi authority typically reserved for the nation’s judiciary. About 10 people were murdered during the demonstration.