Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi and 10 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders will face a new trial on February 15 for allegedly leaking “top secret” documents to Qatar and Al-Jazeera television. Egypt’s first freely elected President Morsi, who was ousted in July 2013 by the Army, is already facing another case of alleged espionage and two other trials and could face the death penalty if proved guilty.
The defendants, including an Al-Jazeera employee, are charged with accessing “top secret” documents issued by highest-level state authorities to the presidency and related to national security and the Egyptian Army, and handing them to Qatar and Al-Jazeera television based in that country “in exchange for one million dollars”, according to the prosecution statement.