Morsy has not been seen publicly since the military forced him from office July 3.
The military has not
commented on his whereabouts, though a Brotherhood spokesman told CNN he
was initially under house arrest at the presidential Republican Guard
headquarters in Cairo and later was moved to the Defense Ministry.
Nasser Amin -- a lawyer
who met with Morsy's former chief of staff, Refa'a al-Tahtawi, who also
is being detained -- told CNN that the former president is being
"treated with the utmost respect ... like a statesman."
Yet Amin said that Morsy and others who are being held "can't contact the outside world or lawyers."
The former Muslim
Brotherhood leader became Egypt's first democratically president in June
2012 but found himself at odds with the opposition before the military
removed him from power and detained him this month.
State media reported
he's being held in relation to a jailbreak that took place during
Egypt's 2011 revolution but well before he came to power.
Prosecutors, who ordered
a probe two weeks ago, said the escape of Morsy and 18 other
Brotherhood members (among others) was plotted by "foreign elements"
including Hamas, its military wing, the Islamic Palestinian Army and
Hezbollah. The Muslim Brotherhood was named as a domestic group that
cooperated with those who broke them out of prison.
Morsy -- who local media
reports say was in prison for a single day without any formal charges
against him -- is accused of escaping, destroying the prison's official
records and intentionally killing and abducting police officers and
prisoners.
Now he could be headed
back not just to prison, but the same one where Mubarak, the ousted
dictator he and his allies have long railed against, is being held.
Ibrahim said Saturday
that such a move will probably happen, though an investigative judge
will make the final decision on Morsy's next destination.
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