State media: Egypt's Morsi to stand trial for 'espionage'

[azurnoir]

Source: Ma'an

CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi will be tried on charges of "espionage" that aided acts of "terrorism," state media reported on Wednesday.

Morsi, an Islamist who the military ousted in July after a single year of rule, is already on trial over alleged involvement in the killings of opposition protesters.

Thirty-five other defendants, including former presidential aides and top leaders of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement, would stand trial with him, the official MENA news agency reported.

Prosecutors accuse Morsi of "espionage for foreign organizations abroad to commit terrorist attacks in the country," the agency reported.

The trial appears to stem from an investigation into prison breaks during a 2011 uprising against strongman Hosni Mubarak, when Morsi and other Islamist prisoners escaped.

Read more: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=658121

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Show trials by the coupsters. n/t

[neffernin]

2. Round and round it goes

when it stops nobody knows
- Unrest in the Middle East

Only two things I'm sure of tomorrow, the sun rising and unrest in the Middle East
- Someone perhaps

Hard to care after a while, when it seems generations of people are hardwired to hate and abuse each other in that region.

[Ash_F]

3. Good thing they deposed this right wing nut job to put in sensible moderates

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. That's funny. n/t

[freshwest]

4. I did not know that background to all of this. Thanks, azurnoir. n/t

[kelliekat44]

6. The entire world stood by and agreed to let democracy die a thousand deaths....nt