Kerry couldn’t have picked a worse day to show public support for Egypt’s de facto leader, General Abdelfatah al-Seesi. The U.S.’s most senior diplomat was speaking on the eve of the trial of Egypt’s deposed Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Mursi, and just days after security forces arrested Essam El-Erian, one of the movement’s few leaders still at large. Mursi was today duly flown to a courtroom at Cairo’s police academy -- the first time he has been seen in public since he was toppled on July 3 -- after being held for interrogation in an unknown location, with minimal access to lawyers, for four months. His legal team says they were given the documents relating to the case one day before the trial began. No wonder Mursi and his 14 co-defendants refused to acknowledge the court and the trial was adjourned
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:59:11 +0000
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