Court adjourns examining challenges of Morsi, MB leaders in 'prison break' case until Nov. 15

The Court of Cassation decided on Tuesday to postpone until November 15 the examination of the appeals filed by ousted president Mohamed Morsi and other leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in the "mass prison break" case.

Morsi and the other defendants received death and jail sentences on charges of escaping from prison, attacking security buildings, killing police officers and attempted murder of prison guards and looting during the January 25, 2011 Revolution.

Morsi escaped from Wadi Natroun prison in January 2011 and he and 129 other defendants were accused of colluding with elements of the Palestinian movement of Hamas, the Lebanese Hezbollah group, the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in a plot to free nearly 20,000 prisoners during mass prison breaks in 2011.

Source: MENA