The trial of ousted President of only Muslim Brotherhoods Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting the murder of protesters is due to start on November 4.
Mohamed Morsi will stand trial with 14 other members of his Muslim Brotherhood over the killings of at least 10 protesters outside his presidential palace in December 2012, according to state news agency MENA.
The deadly clashes between Islamist groups and Morsi supporters broke out after Brotherhood supporters dispersed a sit-in by secular leaning opponents.
They had gathered to oppose a temporary decree passed by Morsi placing his decisions beyond judicial review.
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood claimed that most of those killed were Islamists.
The deaths came almost six months before he was deposed in a military coup in July.
Morsi, who became Egypt’s first democratically elected president, has been detained in a secret location since.
Following his departure, security forces launched an extensive crackdown on his backers that has killed over 1,000 people, while strangling the Muslim Brotherhood with mass arrests and a ban on the organisation.
Hundreds of the Islamists’ loyalists were killed on August 14 when security forces violently dispersed two protest camps set up by his supporters in Cairo.
Much of the Brotherhood’s leadership, including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, are standing trial on other charges.
Western mediators including EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had demanded Morsi’s release as a good will gesture, but were rebuffed by the government which accuses the Brotherhood of “terrorism”.
Although the Brotherhood publicly demands Morsi’s reinstatement, its leaders privately say they would settle for their leaders’ release and that officials responsible for the killings of protesters be held to account.
The movement has called for more marches on Friday to head to Tahrir Square in central Cairo, in a repeat of Sunday’s protests that turned deadly.
Morsi is the second Egyptian president standing trial over the killings of protesters.
His predecessor Hosni Mubarak, overthrown in early 2011, is on trial for complicity in the deaths of protesters during the 18-day uprising that forced him to resign.
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