CAIRO: An Egyptian prosecutor levelled new accusations against Mohammed Mursi, already facing trial on other charges, alleging the Islamist had insulted the country’s judiciary when he was president, state media reported yesterday.
The prosecutor issued a new detention order for Mursi over his comments that judges had rigged a 2005 parliamentary election.
Mursi, who is already being held by the military at an unknown location, refused to cooperate with prosecutors, the official Mena news agency reported. “The investigative prosecutors accused Mohammed Mursi of insulting the judiciary by accusing 22 judges of forging parliamentary elections in 2005,” the agency reported, without providing details.
AFP
