Update: Prosecutor accuses MB of faking leaked SCAF recording |
Friday, December 5, 2014 Mada Masr
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Audio recordings of a purported phone conversation between Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) members Mamdouh Shahin and Osama al-Gendy were circulated on the Islamist Mekameleen (We shall continue) channel and the pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr satellite channel.
In the conversation, Shahin tells Gendy that the criminal charges against ousted President Mohamed Morsi could be dismissed, because he was illegally detained by the Armed Forces between July 3 and July 7, 2013 as the military announced his deposition from power.
After massive protests calling for the end of Morsi’s rule on June 30, 2013, the military stepped in to announce his ouster and the appointment of an alternative government on July 4. Since then, Morsi and a number of his aides were held incommunicado at an undisclosed military premise. He only emerged publicly months later, appearing in court to face several charges in different cases, most notably an espionage case and a case of killing protesters near the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace during anti-regime protests in 2012.