An Egyptian court decided Monday to adjourn the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, the group’s former acting leader, Mahmoud Ezzat, Mohamed Beltagy, Osama Yassin and 75 others in the case known in the media as the “Platform Incidents” to a Dec. 20 session.
According to the judicial probe into the case, the defendants led a group that was established in violation of the law.
The group sought to suspend the constitution and the law, obstruct state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their duties, violate people’s personal freedom and public liberties and rights and harm national unity and social peace, said the public prosecution.
It accused Badie of leading the banned group and five other members of leading the group’s guidance office and the Shura Council to carry out terrorist attack against the armed forces, the police and public facilities.
The case dates back to July 2013, when the defendants supplied the group with weapons, ammunition and incendiary devices, while other unknown persons plotted premeditated murder, used force and violence, threatened public officials and destroyed buildings and public property.
Another court adjourned the trial of several other defendants to Dec. 26.
They are accused of “plotting to carry out terrorist operations targeting the police and army and public and private facilities and possessing weapons and explosives.
