Cairo: Mohammed Muris did not look like a man who had just spent four months in a secret prison with barely any contact with the outside world. Dressed in a dark suit and no tie, and still full of figure, he did not even look like a prisoner. And he tried not to sound like one, either.
“What is happening now is a military coup,” he bellowed shortly after entering the courtroom, in the hectoring tone that Egyptians came to lampoon during his year-long presidency.
They were his first words in public since July 2, when he gave a rambling televised speech the night before he was deposed by the army following days of mass protests in which millions of Egyptians had called for the military to intervene.
“I am Dr Mohammed Mursi and I am the president of the republic,” shouted Mursi, when asked to identify himself.
“This coup is a crime and treasonous, and the court is held responsible for it.”
The Guardian
