An Egyptian court adjourned the latest trial of the first freely-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and ten other defendants on Sunday. The trial, on charges of the president’s “espionage” with Qatar, will now commence on 2 January, Anadolu has reported.
An anonymous judicial source told Anadolu that the Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial in order to be able to listen to the witness statements of Brigadier General Mohamed Zaki, chief of the Republican Guards, and Brigadier General Usama Al-Jindi.
MENA News Agency reported that Morsi is facing charges of leaking security and military secrets to Qatar’s intelligence agencies and Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channel.
Morsi also faces four other charges, including inciting the killing of protesters during his rule, degrading the Egyptian judiciary, conspiring with foreign groups (including the Palestinian Islamic Resistance movement, Hamas) and breaking out of prison during the January 25 Revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak.
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