(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) A son of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has decried a Saturday court verdict referring his father to the grand mufti, Egypt's top religious authority, to consider a possible death sentence against him on jailbreak charges.
"The verdict is invalid and we don't pay attention to it," Osama Morsi told Anadolu Agency by phone.
"The president remains steadfast and will continue to defend the people's will until the revolution prevails," he said.
An Egyptian court on Saturday referred 122 out 166 defendants € including Morsi € to the grand mufti to consider possible death sentences against them over charges of jailbreak and espionage charges.
Morsi's family did not attend Saturday's trial session, citing "their rejection of the legitimacy of the trial."
The opinion of the mufti is not binding to the court, but Egyptian law makes it necessary for judges to seek a religious point of view on any death sentence.
Egyptian authorities accuse Morsi and 130 others of taking part in a mass jailbreak during Egypt's January 2011 uprising that ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak.
They also accuse Morsi and 35 co-defendants of "conspiring" with Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah to carry out "terrorist acts" inside Egypt.
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