The Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of the acting leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, to April 12.
In 2015, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 20 suspects to life imprisonment, while Ezzat and 99 other defendants were sentenced to death by hanging after they were convicted in the case that included storming Egyptian prisons and assaulting security and police facilities.
According to the investigation, they were accused of committing 32 murders, smuggling around 20,000 prisoners, and kidnapping three officers and a police corporal.
They sought to undermine the country’s independence and the safety of territories as the protests of Jan. 25, 2011 erupted.
The prosecution accused the defendants of collaborating with leaders of the international Brotherhood organization, Hamas's Political Bureau and the Lebanese Hezbollah to overthrow the Egyptian state and its institutions, and train armed elements by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to commit hostile and military acts inside the country.
They further assisted the criminal prisoners by providing them with information, funds, and forged identity cards to access the country.
