Prosecutors allege Morsi leaked state secrets

CAIRO // Prosecutors yesterday accused Mohammed Morsi of leaking state secrets to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as part of a plot to destabilise Egypt, at the second hearing of his trial for espionage.

Prosecutors accused Mr Morsi and 35 others, including leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, of conspiring with foreign powers, Iran and Palestine’s Hamas movement, to destabilise Egypt. The trial, which opened on February 16, is one of three under way against Mr Morsi, who was removed as president by the army in July after days of protests calling for the Islamist to quit.

Yesterday prosecutors detailed the charges against Mr Morsi and his co- defendants. They were accused of “delivering to a foreign country national defence secrets and providing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard with reports to destabilise the security and stability of the country”. Mr Morsi and the defendants carried out espionage activities, prosecutors said, on behalf of the “international Muslim Brotherhood organisation and Hamas with an aim to perpetrate terror attacks in the country to spread chaos and topple the state” from 2005 to August 2013.

Mr Morsi is already on trial for the killing of protesters during his presidency and a jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

He also faces trial for “insulting the judiciary”.