DHAKA: Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Mursi and 130 others, including Hamas members, will go on trial on January 28 over a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

Egypt judicial sources said Thursday, reports The Straits Times.

The prosecution said last month there were a total of 132 defendants, all of whom were also accused of murdering police officers.

It said almost 70 of the defendants belonged to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah.

The trial, set to begin exactly three years after the prison break, will be the third for Mursi on various charges, amid a crackdown on his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement following his July ouster by the army.

BDST: 2028 HRS, JAN 02, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor