{An Egyptian court has adjourned to Wednesday the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 130 others charged with breaking out of jail in 2011, a judicial source has said.}<\/p>\n
The judge adjourned trial proceedings to continue hearing defense agruments, the source, requesting anonymity, told.<\/p>\n
Morsi, along with his co-defendants, stand accused of taking part in a mass jailbreak during Egypt’s January 2011 uprising that ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n
Only 26 defendants, including Morsi, are in custody, while the remaining are being tried in absentia.<\/p>\n
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, was ousted by the military in mid-2013 \u2013 after only one year in office \u2013 following massive protests against his presidency.<\/p>\n
He currently faces four separate trials for multiple criminal charges, including espionage, jailbreak and “offending the judiciary.”<\/p>\n
Morsi, like his co-defendants, insists that the charges against him are politically driven.<\/p>\n
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