Cairo Appeal Court decided on Saturday to postpone to 3 March the request to replace the judge in the trials of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and Muslim Brotherhood figures, who are charges with prison break and espionage.
The request was originally submitted by defense lawyers of the suspects Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy.
Among the suspects at large: Islamic preacher Youssef al-Qaradawy, former Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud, deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Ezzat, Hamas’s Qassam brigades leaders Ramzy Mowafy and Ayman Nofal, Hezbollah leaders Mohamed Youssef Mansour and Ehab al-Sayyed Morsy. The last two suspects were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment in April 2010 over the lawsuit of Hezbollah terrorist cell.
Judge Hassan Samir, delegated from Appeal Court to investigate the incidents, accused the suspects of kidnapping and detaining policemen in Gaza, possessing heavy weapons, killing and attempting to murder policemen, setting public establishments on fire, breaking into prisons and stealing their contents, enabling inmates to run away and creating instability.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
