CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Saturday adjourned until October 23 the trial of a former minister, an ex-legislator and a landlord on charges of hiding senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagi.
CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Saturday adjourned until October 23 the trial of a former minister, an ex-legislator and a landlord on charges of hiding senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagi.
Former manpower minister Khalid al-Azhari, former legislator Gamal al-Ashri and house owner Ibrahim Farahat are accused of offering a hiding to al-Beltagi after an arrest warrant was issued for him.
The three defendants did not attend the court session in the south of Cairo on Saturday.
Al-Beltagi, a senior leader of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, was hiding at Farahat’s house when he was arrested on charges of inciting violence.
Investigations revealed that al-Ashri had rented the house where he received al-Azhari and al-Beltagi.
Al-Ashri told investigators that he did not know that an arrest warrant was issued for al-Beltagi then.
Al-Beltagi had sought hiding, along with several other leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood, following the violent dispersal of two support camps for ousted President Mohamed Morsi in mid-August.
He was arrested on August 29, hours after he appeared in a televised address to Morsi’s supporters, asking them to keep demonstration against the ouster of the Islamist president.
