EGYPT
July 22, 2015
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President Morsi Son Released After One Year Imprisonment on Fabricated Charges

President Mohamed Morsi’s family announced the release of his youngest son after serving a one-year jail sentence on trumped-up drug possession and consumption charges.

Osama Mohamed Morsi, the family’s spokesman, confirmed his brother was released Tuesday evening.

In July 2014, coup authorities rounded up the President’s son and one of his friends on drug charges, which were strongly denied by family and lawyers, who affirmed this was nothing but another coup attempt to demonize the President and Islamists.

Earlier, coup authorities absurdly refused to allow Morsi’s son to challenge or appeal the initial verdict that convicted him on false charges in a sham trial. Then, they refused to release him after spending three-quarters of the time, according to the law, and instead insisted on him completing the one-year sentence in full.