Rejects charges and urges Egyptians to continue ‘peaceful revolution’
- Reuters
- Published: 19:21 February 22, 2014
Image Credit: AP
Egypt's ousted President Mohammad Mursi in a soundproof barred glass cage during a court hearing in a February 16 photo. AP
Cairo:
Egypt’s deposed president Mohammad Mursi on Saturday rejected the right
of a court to try him and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on charges
related to a mass jail break in 2011, security and judicial sources
said.
Mursi and his comrades,
including the Brotherhood’s top leader Mohammad Badie, are charged with
killing and kidnapping policemen, attacking police facilities and
breaking out of jail during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
“As
far as I’m concerned, these procedures are void and I don’t accept
them,” Mursi said, describing himself as the president of the republic
and calling on the Egyptian people to continue their “peaceful
revolution,” according to the sources.
Some
of the other roughly 130 defendants, who were held in a different
courtroom cage from Mursi, applauded him and chanted “Down with military
rule”. It is not unusual for high-profile defendants to be locked up in
cages in Egyptian courts.
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