Trial of Morsi in Ittihadiya Palace case adjourned until Tuesday

Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned until Tuesday the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and 14 Muslim Brotherhood members held on charges of killing peaceful protesters outside the Ittihadiya Palace in 2012.
The demonstrators had gathered outside the presidential palace in November 2012 in protest at a complementary constitutional declaration issued by Morsi back then.
The court delayed the trial Wednesday to continue hearing the defense team representing the defendants.
Today it heard pleadings of the lawyer representing MB leaders Mohamed el Beltagi and Essam el Eryan, who argued that the investigation conducted by the national security sector was invalid.
The national security sector is not a body entitled to conduct probes, the lawyer insisted.
The lawyer also said that investigations carried out by the general security department were null. Those were a carbon-copy of the national security probe, the lawyer told the court.
He also argued that a third probe by the intelligence department was contradictory and, thus, invalid.