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Egypt’s toppled president, Mohamed Morsi, has appeared in court in Cairo to face charges linked to his escape from prison in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Morsi was shown on state television on Tuesday dressed in a white jumpsuit and inside a metal cage in the court, being held in Cairo’s police academy complex.<\/span>
Morsi, referred to as defendant 83, shouted at the the judge: “Who are you? Do you know who I am?”<\/span>
The judge responded, “I’m the head of the criminal court.” <\/span>
The MENA agency report said Morsi was flown by helicopter from Borg al-Arab prison in Alexandria, while about 130 others were driven to Cairo. <\/span>
The trial opened the day after General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led the army’s removal of Morsi last year, was cleared by the military to run for the presidency later this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prison gambit<\/strong><\/span>
The case against the defendants is rooted in the 2011 escape of more than 20,000 inmates from Egyptian prisons – including Morsi. Also charged are members of the Palestinian group Hamas and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.<\/span>
Morsi was accused, just before his removal by the army last year, of colluding with “foreign forces”, allowing him and others to break out of a high-security prison near Cairo.<\/span>
He was being held in custody after a roundup of Muslim Brotherhood supporters during the uprising against the regime of Hosni Mubarak. <\/span>
A lawyer has said the trial appears aimed at “denigrating” Morsi and his Brotherhood group.<\/span>
It is Morsi’s second court appearance since Egypt’s popularly backed July 3 military coup. He missed a January 8 hearing in another trial after security officials said bad weather grounded a helicopter meant to bring him.<\/span>
The trial was adjourned to February 22.<\/span><\/p>\n

General assassinated<\/strong><\/span>
In a separate development, armed men killed a senior Egyptian Interior Ministry official outside his home in Cairo on Tuesday, security officials said.<\/span>
“General Mohamed Saeed, head of the technical office of the minister of interior, was targeted by gunmen inside a car who shot him and fled,” one of the officials told the Reuters news agency.<\/span>
The general was an aide to Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, who survived an assassination attempt last year.<\/span>
There have been an upswing in attacks on security targets in the last week. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a group based in the Sinai Peninsula, said it carried out bombings that rocked Cairo during the third anniversary of the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak.<\/span>
Ansar said that the attacks were in response to suppression of Morsi’s supporters and the Brotherhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Al Jazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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