Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is under investigation for treason, murder, and espionage, according to regional press reports.
Morsi has not been seen in public since he was forcefully removed from office earlier this month by the Egyptian military.
Both Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have been accused of stoking violence and worse in the weeks and days leading up to his being forced out of office June 30.
Now political activists and others have reportedly filed a series of lawsuits "accusing him of coordinating with foreign elements to spread chaos and kill Egyptians" during his term in office, according to Egypt’s Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly.
One Egyptian lawyer claimed over the weekend that Morsi and 13 other senior Brotherhood officials had been named in cases related to "spying and of instigating contacts with foreign elements during the January [25] Revolution and encouraging them to spread chaos by attacking Egyptian civilians," according to the report.
Egyptian legal authorities are said to be reviewing the multiple charges, and have even frozen the assets of top Muslim Brotherhood officials in recent days.
Reporters, Egyptian activists, and other anti-Brotherhood elements were routinely beaten and imprisoned under Morsi’s rule.
Muslim Brotherhood leaders have additionally sought to stoke violence and encourage counter-revolutions since Morsi fell, leading many to warn that Egypt could spiral into civil war.
One knowledgeable source in Egypt told the Washington Free Beacon that Morsi is currently being held in a military institution and is awaiting charges.
Egyptian lawyer Amir Salem told Al-Ahram over the weekend that Brotherhood officials were caught powwowing with Hamas in the days leading up to the first Egyptian revolution that brought down Hosni Mubarak.
Top Hamas officials are believed to have fled Cairo following Morsi’s ouster.
"The intelligence agencies intercepted calls between Hamas and Brotherhood officials on 24, 25, 26 and 27 January 2011," Salem was quoted as saying.
"Brotherhood officials clearly viewed Palestinian Hamas as its military arm," Salem reportedly said. "They asked Hamas to help the Brotherhood ride the wave of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak by infiltrating Egypt and ensuring the group emerged on top."
Morsi is accused of plotting with senior Hamas official Khaled Meshaal, who reportedly fled Cairo soon after the Morsi government collapsed. Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook, who managed the terror groups operations in Cairo, also fled the country, according to the Economist.
"Mohamed Morsi contacted Khaled Meshaal, chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, requesting help on the ground which Meshaal promised to provide," Salem was quoted as saying.
Morsi is believed to have used "foreign entities" such as Hamas "to escape from jail" in 2011, pseudonymous Egyptian blogger and activist The Big Pharaoh told the Free Beacon. "This amounts to treason according to the law here."
Salem claimed that Hamas agents crossed the Sinai border and stormed the Wadi Al-Natroun prison in an attempt to set Morsi free.
Other Egyptian activists allege that Morsi can be heard on audiotapes plotting with Hamas and other foreign entities, including the United States.
Other activists allege in lawsuits that Morsi had used "official visits to foreign countries to smuggle [out of Egypt] security documents incriminating the international arm of the Muslim Brotherhood," Al-Ahram reported
Another lawsuit separately filed by Egyptian political analyst Abdel-Rehim Ali alleges that Morsi spied on behalf of the United States and Turkey.
"The public will be shocked by how America turned Morsi into a spy," Abdel-Rehim Ali was quoted as saying by Al-Ahram.
The Big Pharaoh said that the legal process must move quicker to ensure justice and promote stability in post-revolution Egypt.
"[Morsi] should be either sent to prison on these charges or sent home," he said. "Locking him up like that without charging him or setting him free is very counterproductive."