An Egyptian judge referred ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi for trial on a third set of criminal charges by indicting him and 129 others for breaking out of prison during Egypt’s 2011 revolt.
Morsi and fellow inmates from his Muslim Brotherhood group worked in concert with hundreds of militants from Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to escape from the Wadi el-Natroun prison north of Cairo, murdering and abducting policemen and “threatening the unity of the country.”
In that referral, the prison operation is listed as part of a larger, years-long conspiracy with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps to sow chaos and propel the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Egypt.
According to the prosecutor general, Hamas and Hezbollah, assisted by Iran, helped train Muslim Brotherhood operatives in Gaza as long ago as 2005. In return, Morsi allegedly leaked state secrets to the Revolutionary Guard once he assumed the presidency.
Morsi and other high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood leaders are also on trial for incitement to murder opposition protesters during his year in office. Morsi appeared in court Nov. 4 to face that charge for the first time.
The court sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death.
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