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Ex-president Morsi's son arrested by Cairo forces

Osama Morsi, son of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi reacts during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, July 22, 2013. (Photo by AP)

Egyptian police have arrested the son of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on charges linked to a protest against his father’s ouster that resulted in hundreds of deaths.

Police arrested Osama Morsi at his home in the city of Zagazig, his lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said, according to media on Thursday.

Osama has been charged in a mass trial underway over the bloody dispersal of two protest camps in August 2013 in which police killed hundreds of demonstrators, Abdel Maksoud said.

About 10 policemen were also killed by protesters during the dispersal on 14 August 2013 when security forces raided two camps of protesters in Cairo: one at al-Nahda Square and a larger one at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.

It was the bloodiest day in a relentless crackdown on Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement after the army, spurred by mass protests, ousted the first democratically elected president in July 2013.

A photo taken on June 2, 2015 shows ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gesturing from the defendants cage at his trial at the police academy on the outskirts of Cairo. (By AFP)

Osama Morsi , who is a lawyer himself, is due to appear on Saturday at the next session of the mass trial, which began in late 2015, Abdel Maksoud said.

Some of the charges can lead to the death sentence.

Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of Brotherhood members to death, including Morsi himself.

The Egyptian government has been cracking down on opposition since Morsi was ousted in a military coup led by former army chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013.

Rights groups say the army’s crackdown on the supporters of Morsi has led to the deaths of over 1,400 people and arrest of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.


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