The Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and other leaders and members of the group to 11 October, in case is known as the ‘Rabaa task force’ trial.
The court switched off the microphones inside the dock when the defendants started to shout. They are charged with preparing a task force in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square to guide their supporters to stage demonstrations and spread chaos.
They are also charged with plotting to storm and burn police stations, private property and churches.
The prosecution argues that the suspects Badie and his deputy Mahmoud Ghozlan planned a scheme after 30 June to create chaos in the country by breaking into police stations, state establishments, private properties, Coptic places of worship and setting them on fire.
The group also allegedly formed a task force to follow up on movements of its members and supervise the progress of the scheme. Prosecution also claims they changed the place of the task force in the aftermath of measures taken by the state upon the sit-ins dispersal in order to remain hidden from security services.
Authorities argue that the defendants fabricated photos of victims and injured among the protesters at the Rabaa al-Adaweya sit-in as well as preparing press releases in foreign languages to publish them at foreign media and local media centers such as the Rassd news network. The suspects are also accused of staging protests that include armed elements to hamper traffic and intimidate people.
Additionally, prosecutors say that the suspects ordered the affiliated civil servants to set state establishments on fire, attack police establishments, steal their contents, carry out assassination operations against police personnel. They are accused of funding these elements financially and supplying them with ammunition.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
