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Egypt's Morsi Urges 'Revolution' as Trial Adjourned
[An Nahar] Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... on Saturday urged supporters from a courtroom dock to continue their "revolution", as a protest movement demanding his reinstatement shrinks before a fierce police crackdown. The defiant call came during Morsi's trial on charges related to jailbreaks and attacks on police, as a separate court acquitted six coppers of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund still stages diminishing weekly protests despite a crackdown that has killed more than 1,400 people since the military overthrew him in July, after just one year in office. "The revolution of the people won't stop -- continue your peaceful revolution," said Morsi during the second hearing of the trial, one of three under way for the deposed leader. Speaking from inside a glass cage, Morsi also insisted that he remains the "president" of Egypt. "I am present here by force," he said. He also blamed Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief who led his overthrow and who is expected to stand in and win presidential elections this spring, for the bloodshed across Egypt. "The head of the coup, the defense minister, has killed more than 3,000 people in the streets. He is the one who killed them and it was not investigated, but he will be held accountable," said Morsi. Defence lawyer Kamal Mandour demanded that Sisi be investigated for "toppling the regime" of Morsi and for detaining him. Another defense lawyer, Mohammed Abu Leila, asked the panel of judges to withdraw from the trial. Morsi and 130 other defendants including Paleostinian and Lebanese faceless myrmidons are charged with organizing jailbreaks and attacking cop shoppes during the 2011 revolt against Mubarak. The defendants chanted "Down with the military" and flashed the four-finger salute associated with a pro-Morsi protest camp in which hundreds were killed in a police operation last August. Posted by: Fred 2014-02-23 |
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