Trial of Morsi in Ittihadiya case adjourned until Sunday

Addressing the court Tuesday was Sayyed Hamed, the lawyer of Morsi.
He requested that the court contact the General Authority For Al Amiria Press Affairs to know if a decision by the interior minister to hold Morsi in Abu Qir, Alexandria, was published in the official newspaper.
The defense team of MB leaders Mohamed el Beltagi and Essam el Eryan requested that they be acquitted of all charges, arguing that they are not based on any evidence.
The defense team also said that some unidentified persons had stood on rooftops of buildings near the Ittihadiya Palace and opened fire, stressing those were not Morsi's supporters.
Not one witness had actually seen any of Morsi's supporters holding weapons, the lawyer stressed.
To the contrary, some of the witnesses did tell prosecutors that they had seen weapons with anti-Morsi protesters, according to the lawyer representing Beltagi and Eryan.
He particularly focused on an account of one witness, who told the prosecutors that MB protesters had been running ahead of late journalist el Husseini Abu Deif, whose back was to anti-Morsi protesters.
Pro-Morsi protesters were, in this case, defending themselves against their opponents, who were hurling Molotov cocktails and stones, the lawyer told the court.
It does not make sense that Morsi's supporters would not fight back, the lawyer said, stressing what pro-Morsi supporters did was catch armed opponents and hand them over to police.
The lawyer told the court that his pleading is based on accounts of witnesses.