Egyptian court delays Morsi's trial over jailbreak to Feb. 22

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Egypt's Cairo Criminal Court decided to delay the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and some 130 others in the 2011 jailbreak case to February 22, state TV reported on Tuesday.
The defending team asked to postpone the trial so as to study the case' documents, the report said.
Earlier Tuesday, Morsi appeared in court on charges of escaping from Wady al-Natroun prison with the assistance of domestic and foreign forces during the January 25 uprising in 2011.
Some 130 others, affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Hamas movement and Lebanese Shiite military party Hezbollah, were tried with Morsi, mostly in absentia. They were accused of storming the prison and kidnapping and killing police officers.
State TV footage showed that Morsi dressed a white prison uniform in the dock along with 21 other defendants, among whom were the Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie, his two deputies Khairat al-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, and former parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni.

The prosecution said 70 defendants were Palestinians.

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