An Egyptian supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and deposed president Mohammed Mursi sporting a cartoon mask of the toppled leader, guards with his colleague during a rally outside Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque on 12 July 2013. (Photo: AFP - Marwan Naamani)
Investigators began questioning Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Mursi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday over their escape from jail during the 2011 uprising, judicial sources told AFP.
The move came just hours after prosecutors received criminal complaints against the deposed president and other senior Islamists, and as the new prime minister planned further talks on forming his cabinet.
The inquiry launched on Sunday relates to the escape by Mursi and dozens of Brotherhood members from Wadi Natrun prison during the uprising that ended former president Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule.
A court in June claimed that the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza and Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah movement helped prisoners.
State Security prosecution service investigators interviewed Mursi at an undisclosed location, the judicial sources said.
Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, has not been seen in public since the military coup which toppled him on July 3 after millions took to the streets calling on him to step down.
Interim leaders say he is being held in a "safe place, for his own safety".
On Saturday, the public prosecutor's office said it was examining complaints filed against Mursi, Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Badie and others, with a view to launching a formal investigation.
The complaints include spying, incitement to violence and damaging the economy, although the prosecutor's office did not say who had made the allegations.
(AFP)
The move came just hours after prosecutors received criminal complaints against the deposed president and other senior Islamists, and as the new prime minister planned further talks on forming his cabinet.
The inquiry launched on Sunday relates to the escape by Mursi and dozens of Brotherhood members from Wadi Natrun prison during the uprising that ended former president Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule.
A court in June claimed that the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza and Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah movement helped prisoners.
State Security prosecution service investigators interviewed Mursi at an undisclosed location, the judicial sources said.
Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, has not been seen in public since the military coup which toppled him on July 3 after millions took to the streets calling on him to step down.
Interim leaders say he is being held in a "safe place, for his own safety".
On Saturday, the public prosecutor's office said it was examining complaints filed against Mursi, Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Badie and others, with a view to launching a formal investigation.
The complaints include spying, incitement to violence and damaging the economy, although the prosecutor's office did not say who had made the allegations.
(AFP)
