In court, defiant Mursi says he is still Egypt’s president

By means of Yasmine Saleh and Yara Bayoumy CAIRO (Reuters) – Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Mursi, given his first public forum seeing that his overthrow in a trial the place he may face execution, declared on Monday he was nonetheless Egypt's reputable president and shouted: "Down with defense force rule!" Mursi, an Islamist who was once toppled by the army in July after mass protests in opposition to him, spoke with anger and fervour, interrupting the primary day of his trial many times from his cage during an unruly listening to that the decide adjourned to January eight. State television aired transient footage of Mursi, the primary public sighting of the president considering his overthrow in July. Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, had been saved in an undisclosed vicinity on the grounds that then. "I’m Dr. Mohamed Mursi.