Morsi trial hears Hamas, Hezbollah attacked Egypt jails

[World News]

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Prosecution witnesses in the jailbreak trial of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi 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 Morsi, 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, Morsi 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. Morsi, dressed in white prison uniform, appeared in a caged dock as his co-defendants sat with their backs to the judges in a separate enclosure, an AFP journalist said.

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