Egypt resumes trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders

The Cairo Criminal Court will resume Saturday the trial of 17 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the General Guide Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat Al-Shater.

The MB leaders are standing trial on charges of violence, which took place in the vicinity of the movement’s headquarters in Mokattam, Cairo prior to the July 3 coup.

The defendants include MB leader’s deputies Rashad Bayoumi and Freedom and Justice Party president Saad Al-Katatny, and the former MB General Guide Mohamed Mahdy Akef.

The Minya Criminal Court sentenced 529 supporters of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death last Monday. The mass death sentence triggered an international uproar, and was criticised by the US, UK, UN, and international rights groups as unacceptable and a miscarriage of justice.