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Ousted Egypt president to be tried over conspiracy

Mursi and 35 others, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top three leaders, are charged with revealing state secrets to a foreign country.

Egypt state media reported on Wednesday that the country’s top prosecutor has referred ousted President Mohammed Mursi to trial for conspiring with foreign groups with the intention of carrying out terrorist operations in the country.
The state news agency reported on Wednesday that Mursi and 35 others, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top three leaders, are charged with revealing state secrets to a foreign country, sponsoring terrorism and carrying out military training and other acts that undermined Egypt’s stability and independence.
Mursi is already under investigatation over allegations he and the Brotherhood worked with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on a prison break that freed him and other members of the group during Egypt’s 2011 uprising. That attack killed 14 inmates.
Morsi on other charges.
Mursi was toppled in July after a single year of turbulent rule, and is already on trial over alleged involvement in the killings of opposition protesters.