Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi was defiant as he went on trial on Tuesday for a prison break during the 2011 uprising, as a police general was killed in the latest attack on security forces.
The trial, and other violence in which a police guard was gunned down outside a Cairo church, came a day after the military backed army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Morsi’s ouster in July, to run for office in his place.
Morsi, dressed in a white prison uniform, gesticulated angrily from the glass cage in which he and 21 co-defendants were held.
‘Who are you,’ he demanded to know, adding, ‘Do you know who I am?
‘I am the president of the republic. Who are you? Let me hear your voice; I don’t hear you,’ he shouted defiantly. In response, a judge said: ‘I am the president of the Cairo Criminal Court.’
Among those in the dock was the supreme guide of Morsi’s now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie.
The trial, and other violence in which a police guard was gunned down outside a Cairo church, came a day after the military backed army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led Morsi’s ouster in July, to run for office in his place.
Morsi, dressed in a white prison uniform, gesticulated angrily from the glass cage in which he and 21 co-defendants were held.
‘Who are you,’ he demanded to know, adding, ‘Do you know who I am?
‘I am the president of the republic. Who are you? Let me hear your voice; I don’t hear you,’ he shouted defiantly. In response, a judge said: ‘I am the president of the Cairo Criminal Court.’
Among those in the dock was the supreme guide of Morsi’s now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie.