Morsi remanded for further 30 days on espionage, murder probe

Egyptian ousted president Mohamed Morsi has been given a renewed extended 30-day jail term upon investigations into charges of espionage, through working with Palestinian movement Hamas to break into a state prison and free prisoners there. Morsi had already been remanded for 15 days over these allegations and had also recently recieved four more, pending a probe into charges of insulting the judicial authority when he accused 22 judges of corruption during the country's parliamentary elections in 2005. The former accusations laid on the ex-president include working with Hamas to "carry out violent acts in the country, attack police and military establishments, break into or cause damage to Egyptian prisons and set fire deliberately to Wadi El-Natrun prison," reported state news agency, MENA. He is also accused of having "enabled the escape of prisoners, including himself, destroying prison documents and archives, breaking into police premises and damaging state buildings and property, while causing chaos, carrying out treason, carrying out the deliberate killing of prisoners and soldiers and abducting some of these soldiers." Morsi's former aide, Rifaa Al-Tahtawi was also remanded for a further 30 days pending investigations into his alleged conspiracy to work with Hamas, leaking to the Palestinian movement valuable and confidential state information during his time working in the president's office.