
Cairo. — Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi will go on trial on February 16 over charges of espionage along with 35 others, official news agency MENA reported yesterday.
The suspects include Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badei and his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, former parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni and others. They are accused of collaborating with foreign bodies, including the Islaimist Hamas Movement, to carry out terrorist acts in Egypt.
Beside charges related to inciting violence and murdering against protesters outside the presidential palace in early December 2012, Morsi will also be tried over jailbreak and insulting the judiciary. — Xinhua.



