Egypt court announces trial for Morsi
10 Oct 2013 12:13 AM GMT
Ousted Egypt president Mohamed Morsi will go on trial on 4 November on charges of inciting the killing of opponents while he was in office, an Egyptian court announced on Wednesday.
Morsi was ousted in a popularly-backed coup on July 3 and has been held incommunicado at an unknown location and has not been seen since, though he has spoken to his family twice and was visited by EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and an African Union delegation.
Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood will be tried along with Morsi, including top aides and leading members of the group. The Cairo Appeals Court also named judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef to preside over the trial, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said. Lawyer Mostafa Atteyah said a meeting of Morsi’s defense team, planned later Wednesday, was to decide on the course of action and name the head of the team. He said so far the legal team has not seen the case’s documents. ‘This is like all the other cases. It is a fabricated one,’ Atteyah said, adding most cases against Brotherhood members are based on weak prosecution. He said Islamist scholar and former presidential candidate Salim al-Awa is expected to lead the defense team.
Morsi was ousted in a popularly-backed coup on July 3 and has been held incommunicado at an unknown location and has not been seen since, though he has spoken to his family twice and was visited by EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and an African Union delegation.
Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood will be tried along with Morsi, including top aides and leading members of the group. The Cairo Appeals Court also named judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef to preside over the trial, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said. Lawyer Mostafa Atteyah said a meeting of Morsi’s defense team, planned later Wednesday, was to decide on the course of action and name the head of the team. He said so far the legal team has not seen the case’s documents. ‘This is like all the other cases. It is a fabricated one,’ Atteyah said, adding most cases against Brotherhood members are based on weak prosecution. He said Islamist scholar and former presidential candidate Salim al-Awa is expected to lead the defense team.
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