SAN FRANCISCO, October 27, (THEWILL) – An Egyptian court has sentenced Osama Morsi, a son of ousted President, Mohammed Morsi, to three years imprisonment for being in possession of a penknife without licence.
According to MENA news agency, Osama’s lawyer denied the charges and said that his client was framed after his quarrel with a police officer, adding that the procedures of the young man’s search and arrest were unconstitutional.
Morsi’s son was arrested following a prosecution order in a case related to the dispersal of a pro-Morsi sit-in in Cairo in August 2013, where the man was said to have two penknives in his handbag.
The Egyptian army ousted Morsi in early July 2013, after mass protests against his one-year rule, and then, outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood group.
Later, security crackdown on pro-Morsi sit-ins left hundreds dead and thousands in custody.
Most Brotherhood leaders, including Morsi and the group’s top chief, Mohammed Badie, are presently in custody, with many of them receiving appealable death sentences and life imprisonments on various charges.
The charges vary from inciting violence, murder to espionage and jailbreak.
Morsi is presently serving a 20-year prison sentence over inciting deadly clashes between his supporters and opponents in late 2012 and a 25-year jail term over leaking classified documents to Qatar.
Since Morsi’s removal, Egypt has been facing a rising wave of terrorist attacks that have left hundreds of policemen and soldiers dead, most of which have been claimed by a Sinai-based militant group loyal to the Islamic State regional terrorist group.
