Mohamed Morsy's defense lawyers said the defense team had been denied access to the ousted leader and were unable to preview files related to the case in which the former president faces charges of inciting murder at the Ettehadiya presidential palace in December 2012.
Mohamed al-Sisi, member of the Freedom and Justice Party's legal committee and a defense lawyer, told Egypt Independent that former Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal Eddin was not included as a defendant in the case, arguing that this fact voids charges against Morsy and the rest of the 14 co-defendants.
He added that though the court accuses Morsy of inciting the murder of al-Fajr newspaper photographer al-Husseiny Abu Deif outside the presidential palace in December, it failed to mention eight Muslim Brotherhood members who died in the same events.
Al-Sisi maintained that the trial is politically-motivated and failed to provide a single piece of material evidence that Morsy summoned Brotherhood supporters to disperse protests outside the presidential palace.
Sisi downplayed other legal claims accusing Morsy of espionage and treason.
Morsy's trials has been postponed until 8 January, a presiding judge confirmed on Monday, following a morning of fraught and chaotic scenes inside the courtroom.
