Murder trial of Egypt’s Morsi starts next month
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Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will go on trial on November 4 on charges of inciting the killing of opponents while he was in office, a court announced yesterday.
Morsi was ousted in a 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 chiefCatherine 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 named judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef to preside over the trial.
Lawyer Mostafa Atteyah said a meeting of Morsi’s defense team 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 that most cases against Brotherhood members are based on weak prosecution.
The case Morsi was charged in dates back to one of the deadliest bouts of violence during his year in office. At least 100,000 protesters gathered outside the presidential palace on December 4, protesting a decree Morsi issued to protect his decisions from judicial oversight and a highly disputed draft constitution that was hurriedly adopted by the parliament.
The prosecution accuses Morsi of inciting his supporters and aides to murder his opponents by forcefully breaking up the sit-in.
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