Egypt is set to hold the largest trial in its history by prosecuting more than 1,200 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi on charges of violence during a police crackdown in 2013, judicial sources say.
The trial will be held in the city of Minya in the south of the capital Cairo within hours, the sources said on Friday.
Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader Mohamed Badie will also be among the defendants in the trial.
The violence on individuals and public property is said to have taken place in southern Egypt in August 2013, after the country’s security forces broke up two Cairo protest camps set up by Morsi’s supporters demanding his reinstatement.
According to rights group Amnesty International, at least 1,400 people were killed in those clashes and in violence since then, while thousands of others have been detained.
Egypt has been experiencing unrelenting violence since Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president, was ousted on July 3, 2013. Hundreds have lost their lives in the ensuing violence across the country.
Since then, Egypt’s military-backed government has launched a bloody crackdown on Morsi’s supporters and arrested thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members, including the party’s senior leaders.
NT/MHB/MAM
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