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<\/a><\/p>\nThe claim came during the second hearing of his trial on espionage charges.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege that he and 35 others were involved in a plot to destabilise Egypt. The trial was later adjourned to 27 February.<\/p>\n
The deposed Islamist leader is facing four separate trials.<\/p>\n
Mr Morsi’s supporters say he and other senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders are the victims of politically motivated prosecutions.<\/p>\n
The espionage trail opened on 16 February and on Sunday prosecutors detailed the charges against Mr Morsi and his co-defendants.<\/p>\n
They were specifically accused of “delivering to a foreign country… national defence secrets and providing the Iranian Revolutionary Guards with security reports in order to destabilise the security and stability of the country”, AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n
The statement read in court did not identify the “foreign country”.<\/p>\n
Mr Morsi is also accused of collaborating with the Palestinian movement Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty.<\/p>\n
During Sunday’s hearing, Mr Morsi was held separately in a soundproof glass cage to prevent him shouting and disrupting proceedings.<\/p>\n
Mr Morsi was ousted by the military last July following mass street protests against his government.<\/p>\n
There has since been a severe crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood group, as well as on other activists seen as hostile to the military-backed government.<\/p>\n
The Brotherhood has been declared a terrorist organisation and authorities have punished any public show of support for it.<\/p>\n
Other senior Brotherhood figures, including supreme guide Mohammed Badie and his deputy and former presidential candidate Khairat al-Shater, are also facing a raft of charges.<\/p>\n
Proceedings in two other trials have already begun.<\/p>\n
The first opened in November, with Mr Morsi facing charges of inciting the killing of protesters near the presidential palace when he was in office in 2012.<\/p>\n
In January, another trial opened concerning his escape from prison in a jailbreak in 2011, during which police officers were killed.<\/p>\n
The fourth trial, which has yet to open, will be on charges of insulting the judiciary.<\/p>\n
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