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Mohamed Morsi court appearance postponed Mohamed Morsi court appearance postponed until 1 February
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Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi will not appear at court on Wednesday due to bad weather, a senior security official has told Egypt's state news agency. The judge in the trial of Egypt's former Islamist president on charges of inciting murder has ordered the hearings be adjourned until 1 February after bad weather prevented Mohammed Morsi from reaching the Cairo court.
Bad weather delayed Morsi's flight to the Cairo police academy, where he was due to face trial for inciting the killing of protesters, state media reported. Security officials say the helicopter that was to fly Morsi from a prison near the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to the court in Cairo could not take off because of fog on Wednesday.
Morsi had been due in court for the second session of his trial in a case relating to violence outside the presidential palace when he was head of state. The army deposed him on 3 July after mass protests against his rule. Morsi and 14 others are on trial for inciting the killing of protesters outside a Cairo presidential palace in December 2012, when at least 10 people wee killed and hundreds wounded.
State media earlier reported that Morsi, who is in prison in Alexandria, on the Mediterranean coast, had arrived at the Cairo police academy, where the court was due to convene. It's one of three trials that Morsi faces. Charges in all three carry the death penalty.
But the state news agency later reported that bad weather meant Morsi would most probably not be taken to court. It cited a senior security official.
The charges relate to violence outside the presidential palace in December 2012 during protests ignited by a presidential decree that expanded Morsi's powers. Fourteen other Islamists are standing trial with him.
The army-backed authorities brought two new cases against Morsi last month, accusing him of conspiring against Egypt with the Palestinian group Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Shia Islamist government of Iran, and separately charging him over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.The army-backed authorities brought two new cases against Morsi last month, accusing him of conspiring against Egypt with the Palestinian group Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Shia Islamist government of Iran, and separately charging him over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.
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