DHAKA: Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi called on his followers on Saturday to continue their ‘peaceful revolution’, during his trial on charges related to jailbreaks and attacks on police.

Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood still stages diminishing weekly protests despite a crackdown that has killed more than 1,400 people since the military overthrew him in July.

The court adjourned the trial, one of four for Mursi, until February 24.

A defiant Mursi had interrupted past hearings to declare that he was still Egypt’s president, having been democratically elected a year before his overthrow, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 2019 HRS, FEB 22, 2014