Mursi stands trial over conspiracy charges
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An Egyptian riot policeman stands guard on the top of an armored vehicle outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of #Egypt's ousted Islamist president #Mohammed_Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)
Deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it “the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of Egypt,” prosecutors have detailed a “terrorist plan” dating back to 2005 and implicating Palestinian group Hamas and the Iranian government, as well as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. read (...)