Morsi trial date over Egypt jailbreak set for January 28
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Egypt’s deposed president Mohammed Morsi and 130 others, including Hamas members, will go on trial on January 28 over a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising, judicial sources said yesterday.
The prosecution said last month there were a total of 133 defendants, all of whom were also accused of murdering police officers.
It said almost 70 of the defendants belonged to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
The trial, set to begin exactly three years after the prison break, will be the third for Morsi on various charges, amid a crackdown on his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement following his July ousting by the army.
Prosecutors claim that Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and jihadist militants attacked prisons and police stations during the first few days of the revolt against Hosni Mubarak, killing policemen and helping thousands to escape.
Several Hamas and Hezbollah prisoners escaped.
At least two Hamas inmates, including militant leader Ayman Nofal, have been indicted, prosecution sources said.
Another escapee, a Hezbollah commander named Mohammed Mansur who was convicted in 2010 of plotting attacks in Egypt, has also been charged.
Also among the defendants are Brotherhood leaders who escaped from Wadi Natrun prison, and prominent Qatar-based cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Yesterday, interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim accused Hamas officials of providing “logistical support” to Islamist fighters in Egypt for launching attacks in favor of the Brotherhood, “particularly during the presidency of Morsi.”
He further charged that Hamas, which rules the Palestinian Gaza Strip, took fighters there to “train them in the use of heavy weapons.”
Morsi is already on trial for allegedly inciting the killings of opposition activists during his one year in power.
He is also being tried for espionage involving Hamas.
Last week, authorities designated the Brotherhood as a “terrorist” group and accused it of a bombing north of Cairo that killed 15 people. The group denied the accusation.
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