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Defense lawyers for ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and a number of other Muslim Brotherhood leaders are mulling a withdrawal from their clients' ongoing trials, well-placed sources said Monday.
"The defense team has met recently to discuss whether to continue defending the ousted president and Brotherhood leaders or to pull out of the trials," one of the sources told Anadolu Agency.
The source cited what he described as "the bad shape of Egypt's justice system" and frequent "unjustified court verdicts" for the decision.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected leader, was ousted by the army last year – and later imprisoned on a raft of criminal charges – following demonstrations against his presidency.
Several leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement – the group from which Morsi hails – are also standing trial for violence-related charges, which the defendants insist are politically motivated.
Late last year, the government designated the Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist" organization.
By Hussein Qabani
englishnews@aa.com.tr
www.aa.com.tr/en - Kahire
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