Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi has rejected the authority of the court to try him for inciting killings of protesters, the Muslim Brotherhood said.
The movement said on its website that neither Egyptian nor foreign lawyers would be defending Morsi, who “does not recognise the trial or any of the actions and processes that resulted from the coup, such as the politicisation of the judiciary’’.
The statement charged that the Egyptian judiciary had become “a means of repression and terror used by the coup regime against opponents’’.
Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member and Egypt’s first elected president after the ouster of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, was ousted by the military on July 3 amid massive protests against his one-year rule.
Morsi is to face court on Nov. 4 along with 14 other senior Muslim Brotherhood figures.
