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Egypt charges Morsi for passing secrets to Qatar

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Authorities in Egypt charged ousted President Mohammad Morsi and several other people on Saturday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, dealing a further blow to his outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been icy since July 2013, when then Egyptian army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi toppled Morsi.

Qatar had supported Morsi, who is in jail along with thousands of Brotherhood members, many of whom have been sentenced to death on separate charges. Security sources had said last month that Egypt was investigating Morsi in connection with documents they said were leaked to Qatar and its satellite news channel Al Jazeera. The Cairo public prosecutor’s office said Saturday that its secret investigation had unearthed enough evidence of espionage to charge Morsi in a criminal court.

“The inquiries… exposed humiliating facts and the extent of the largest conspiracy and treason carried out by the terrorist Brotherhood organization against the nation through a network of spies,” it said in a lengthy statement. The statement said Morsi and two of his top secretaries abused their positions to slip documents from Egypt’s security agencies to Qatari intelligence and Al Jazeera.

It said some of those documents exposed the location of and weapons held by the Egyptian armed forces and detailed the country’s foreign and domestic policies. The Qatari Foreign Ministry in Doha did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the accusations. Al Jazeera, which has been banned from Egypt, has denied any bias in reporting events there or any role in aiding the Brotherhood.

Source: Lebanon Daily Star

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