President Morsy sacked prosecutor general Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, state television said on Thursday , a day after Cairo Criminal Court acquitted all those accused of killing protesters on 2 February 2011. Defendants were accused of organising attacks on Tahrir square in what is known as the Battle of the Camel.
State TV said that Morsy issued a presidential decree appointing prosecutor general Abdel Meguid Mahmoud as Egypt’s envoy to the Vatican. Mahmoud is considered to be a remnant of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s old regime and calls for his removal often made their way to protesters’ chants and banners since the revolution.
