Egypt requests 1bn Egyptian pounds compensation from Morsi

A sign reading that Mohamed Morsi is Egypt’s legitimate President during a conference to mark the fourth anniversary of the Rabaa massacre [Middle East Monitor]

A representative of the Egyptian State Affairs Ahmed Mukhtar requested yesterday that the ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi pay one billion Egyptian pounds (around $56 million) as temporary compensation for damages made to an Egyptian prison, AlMesryoon.com reported.

In 2013 an Egyptian court accused Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood members of conspiring with Hamas, Hezbollah and local militants to storm Wadi El-Natroun prison in 2011 and free Brotherhood leaders who were being detained there.

Brotherhood members have said they were released by local residents whilst Hamas has denied any involvement.

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Mukhtar made the request during the retrial of Morsi and other Egyptian officials arrested along with him. Judge Mohamed Shirin Fahimi headed the hearing at the Cairo Criminal Court.

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According to The Week newspaper, Mukhtar requested the payment as temporary compensation until the state has worked out how much actual damage was inflicted on the prisons.

Morsi and the other former state officials are being retried after the Cassation Court abolished previous death sentences against them.

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