El-Beltagy's lawyer requests surgery for his client

The lawyer representing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamad El-Beltagy requested he be allowed to undergo medical surgery to treat his abdominal hernia under the supervision of his physicians Dr Medhat Assem and Dr Mohammed Yusuf.

The Cairo Criminal Court listened to El-Beltagy and Islamic preacher Safwat Hegazi’s legal representative who said that he insists on all the objections he presented to the court during the last hearing especially against placing his clients in a glass cage which separates them from the court in clear violation of the law.

El-Beltagy’s lawyer pointed out that, although his clients were physically present in the court room, they are in total isolation.