Deposed Egyptian president Mohammad Mursi’s son released on bail
Police claim Abdullah Mohammad Mursi and his friend were arrested for drug possession
Cairo: Egyptian prosecutors Sunday evening released on bail a son of the deposed Islamist president Mohammad Mursi, a day after he had been arrested for allegedly possessing drugs, judicial sources said.
His release came after urine and blood samples were taken from him and another suspect to show if they had used drugs, added the sources.
Police said they had arrested Abdullah Mohammad Mursi and his friend on Saturday inside a parked car in Qaliubia north of Cairo. When the pair were searched, police said they found in their possession two cigarettes stuffed with hashish, a claim denied by the two suspects in investigations.
Abdullah Mohammad Mursi’s brother, Osama, denounced the arrest as unjustified. “The claims of drug possession are aimed at distorting the image of the innocent,” Osama, a lawyer, said on his Facebook page.
In July last year, the army toppled Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, after street protests against his troubled one-year rule.
Mursi himself is being tried on multiple charges ranging from inciting protester deaths, conspiring with foreign organisations, a jailbreak and contempt for the judiciary.
He and his Muslim Brotherhood group have dismissed the trials as a sham and politically motivated.
