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Cairo. – A Cairo court yesterday adjourned the trial of Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi along with 35 other people over espionage charges to February 27, official news agency MENA reported.The other defendants, including Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei and his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, and former Parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni, rejected lawyers assigned to defend them.
The defendants are accused of spying for foreign bodies including Palestinian Hamas to carry out terrorist acts in Egypt.
Speaking from inside a glass cubicle, the defendants told the judge they have the right to choose their defence team.
During the first session on February 16, presiding judge Shaaban El-Shami asked for ten lawyers for the defendants, as their original lawyers withdrew to protest putting Morsi and his Brotherhood comrades inside a glass cubicle during the trial, deeming it as illegal.
The Pubic Prosecutor stressed that Morsi and 35 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are guilty of collaborating with foreign organisations and countries to harm the country’s national interests.
Morsi also faces two other trials, one for the killing of protesters during his presidency and one for jailbreak and attacks on police during the 2011 revolt that swept him to power.
His trial over the jailbreak will resume on Monday. – Xinhua.
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