Prosecution witnesses in the jailbreak trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammad Mursi on Wednesday accused members of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah of attacking Egyptian prisons during the 2011 uprising.
The trial, one of three against Mursi, is part of a government crackdown that has targeted him and his Muslim Brotherhood movement since his ouster by the army in July.
In the jailbreak case, Mursi and 130 other defendants including Palestinian and Lebanese militants are charged with organising attempts to spring prisoners from jails and attacking police stations during the uprising that ousted longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak.
The prosecution presented three witnesses in Wednesday’s hearing, two of whom described how jails were attacked during the uprising, before the trial was postponed until April 30.
