{Egypt’s deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, has said he was kidnapped by the military and those who removed him from power of committing “treason against the whole nation”.}<\/p>\n
A group of volunteer lawyers, not Morsi’s defence lawyers, read the message from Morsi at a news conference on Wednesday, a day after they met him in prison.<\/p>\n
Morsi said he intended to sue the army-installed authorities, and that there can be no stability in Egypt unless “the military coup is eliminated and those responsible for shedding Egyptians’ blood are held accountable”.<\/p>\n
In the letter, Morsi said he was “kidnapped” and held by the Republican Guard on July 2 – a day before he was formally removed by the military. He said he was held at a naval base for four months.<\/p>\n
Morsi was moved to a high security prison in Alexandria on November 4 after the first session of his trial on charges of incitement to murder protesters in December 2012.<\/p>\n
{{Legal battle}}<\/p>\n
Mohamed al-Damati, one of the lawyers Morsi met, said: “The president plans to take legal measures against the coup, and this will be up to the defence team in the near future.”<\/p>\n
Morsi has so far not agreed on which lawyers will represent him at the trial, which is set to resume on January 8.<\/p>\n
Rory Challands, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Cairo, said: “He is still saying essentially that the court is illegitimate and that it doesn’t have the authority to do what it’s doing.<\/p>\n
“In taking a defiant tone, not naming legal council, he’s leaving hismelf essentially defenceless in the courtroom.”<\/p>\n
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