Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi gave evidence in his espionage trial for the first time on Sunday, launching into a tirade against his successor, whom he accused of removing him in a coup. Appearing in a caged dock dressed in white prison uniform, Morsi presented his own defence for the trial in which he stands accused of espionage along with 35 others. "I am the president, and I have not been stripped of this title," Morsi said during his two-hour appearance in which he attacked Sisi several times without mentioning him by name.