Morsi retrial adjourned to Sept. 24

CAIRO - 10 September 2017: Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned until September 24 the retrial of former president Mohamad Morsi and other members of the Muslim Brotherhood group on prison break charges.

The court decided to delay the session Sunday to have the defendants brought from jail.

The defendants also face charges of attacking police facilities and killing police officers in the wake of the January 25 Revolution in collaboration with the Palestinian movement of Hamas, the international Muslim Brotherhood organization, Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

In November 2016, the Cassation Court overruled previous sentences against the defendants that had been issued by a Cairo court, and ordered a retrial.

In June 2015, Cairo Criminal Court had sentenced to death by hanging Morsi, supreme guide of the MB group Mohamed Badie and his deputy Rashad el Bayoumi, as well as MB member Mohie Hamed, MB leader Esssam el Eryan and former parliament speaker Mohamed el Katatny.

Twenty other defendants had been sentenced to life in prison and two more defendants received prison terms.