Deposed Egyptian President charged with Conspiracy
The order was issued by an investigative judge, who charged Morsi with conspiring to help the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement carry out the acts in the country during a popular uprising that ended the rule of Morsi’s predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, in early 2011, read the report.
The acts, which have been attributed to Hamas, include attacks upon security buildings, jailbreaks, the premeditated murder of policemen and abduction of others.
The judge questioned Morsi and presented him with evidence, said al-Ahram. It did not say how Morsi reacted.
An Egyptian court said in June that Morsi and the other Brotherhood leaders had released freed “thanks to an international plot” involving Hamas, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah and local militants.
Morsi has been in the army’s custody at an undisclosed location since the military deposed him on July 3, after millions of Egyptians protested to demand his resignation.
Friday’s detention order comes on the heels of calls from the U.S., the EU and the UN for his release.
However, a Brotherhood official has dismissed Morsi’s detention as a “farce”.
“This decision has not been made by the judge, but by the military,” the Islamist group’s spokesman said.
The Brotherhood and allied Islamists have denounced al-Sissi’s call as a “declaration of civil war” and vowed to continue protests until Morsi is restored to office.
The Islamist group’s followers were on Friday flocking to the area of Rabaa al-Adawiya, in north-eastern Cairo, joining many others who have been camping there for weeks to protest what they call a military coup against Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president.
Dozens have been killed in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, since Morsi’s overthrow.
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