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Egypt to try Morsi for giving Qatar security papers
View(s):CAIRO, Sept 06, (AFP) -Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi will be tried on charges of giving Qatar documents relating to national security, the state prosecutor said today.
The former head of state already faces the death penalty in several trials, and his supporters have been the target of a deadly crackdown by the authorities since his ouster in July 2013.
No date has yet been set for the new trial for Morsi, who is suspected of providing the sensitive documents to the energy-rich Gulf state during his single year of turbulent rule.
Morsi and 10 co-defendants will go on trial for having “handed over to Qatari intelligence documents linked to national security… in exchange for one million dollars (772,000 euros),” a statement said.
This case represents “the biggest act of treason carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood against the country,” the prosecutor’s statement added.
Morsi’s Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organisation after his overthrow.
Co-defendants include Morsi’s former secretary, Amin El-Serafi; the ex-director of his office, Ahmed Abdel Atti, and Ibrahim Mohamed Helal, identified as a chief editor of the Doha-based Al-Jazeera television network.