Official denies Egypt's Morsi referred to military tribunal
A judicial official in Egypt has denied that the country's toppled Islamist president and a deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood have been referred to a military tribunal.
The official said late Tuesday that prosecutors initially named ousted President Mohammed Morsi and Khairat el-Shater, a senior leader of the Brotherhood, as defendants in a trial over violence in August 2013 in the city of Suez. The official says that announcement was made in error, as military prosecutors did not charge Morsi or el-Shater among the 199 defendants.
