Cairo: Egyptian police yesterday arrested the son of former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi on charges linked to a protest against his father's ouster that resulted in hundreds of deaths, officials said.
Osama Mursi's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said police arrested him at his home in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig, and security officials confirmed the arrest.
Osama Mursi, a lawyer himself, has been charged in a mass trial already under way over the bloody dispersal of an Islamist protest camp in August 2013 in which police killed hundreds of demonstrators, Abdel Maksoud said. About 10 policemen were also killed by protesters during the dispersal of the sit-in in Cairo.
It was the bloodiest day in a relentless crackdown on Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood movement after the army, spurred by mass protests, ousted the Islamist president in July 2013. Osama Mursi is due to appear tomorrow at the next session of the mass trial, which began in late 2015, Abdel Maksoud said.
