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Mohammed Morsi trial over Egypt protesters' deaths to resume

Gulan Media February 1, 2014 News
Mohammed Morsi trial over Egypt protesters' deaths to resume
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has arrived in court in the capital, Cairo, for the resumption of one of the four trials against him.

Mr Morsi and 14 other figures from the Muslim Brotherhood are charged with inciting the killing of protesters near the presidential palace in 2012.

At a hearing in another trial four days ago, a defiant Mr Morsi shouted that he was still the legitimate president.

He was deposed by the army last year after huge crowds rallied against him.

He is now facing four separate criminal trials on various charges.

They are:

Inciting supporters to commit violence and murder as they tried to break up an opposition protest in Cairo in December 2012
Conspiring with foreign organisations to commit terrorist acts, with prosecutors accusing Mr Morsi of forming an alliance with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah
Murdering prison officers in a jailbreak in 2011 during the uprising against the then-President Hosni Mubarak
Insulting the judiciary

Mr Morsi's Islamist supporters say the charges against him are politically motivated, although officials insist the trials are free and fair.

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