Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Egypt's deposed president Mohammad Mursi will be tried on charges of giving Qatar documents relating to national security, the state prosecutor said on Saturday.

The Islamist former head of state already faces the death penalty in several trials, and his supporters have been the target of a deadly crackdown by the authorities since his ouster in July 2013.

No date has yet been set for the new trial for Mursi, who is suspected of providing the sensitive documents to the energy-rich Gulf state during his single year of turbulent rule.

Mursi will go on trial for having "handed over to Qatari intelligence documents linked to national security... in exchange for one million dollars (772,000 euros)", the prosecutor said in a statement.

Ten other defendants will be tried alongside Mursi, including his former secretary Amin El-Serafi, the ex-director of his office Ahmed Abdel Atti and Ibrahim Mohammad Helal, who is identified as a chief editor of the Doha-based Al-Jazeera network.

In the statement, the prosecutor said Mursi and Abdel Atti gave El-Serafi "extremely sensitive documents concerning the army, its deployment and weaponry" and he in turn gave them to Helal and to a Qatari intelligence operative.

It said that intermediaries, who were not identified, were used to send the documents to Helal and the Qataris.

The papers included documents from the "general and military intelligence offices of the State Security" apparatus, the prosecutor said.

Mursi, El-Serafi and Abdel Atti are all behind bars. Helal's whereabouts are unknown.