Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of 494 Muslim Brotherhood defendants to 12 August over clashes that occurred in the vicinity of al-Fateh Mosque, Ramses Square and al-Azbakeya police station on 16 and 17 August 2013, two days after the dispersal of the sit-ins at Rabaa al-Adaweya and al-Nahda squares.
Forty-four people were killed in the clashes and 59 people, including 22 policemen, were injured.
The hearing was adjourned due to some reconstruction work at the hall where the trial was supposed to be held.
Defendants are charged with desecrating al-Fateh Mosque, murder, attempted murder, assembling, thuggery, sabotaging public and private property, assaulting police, blocking road, suspending transport and possessing weapons.
The Muslim Brotherhood had called for protests on social networking websites and TV channels on 16 August at al-Fateh Mosque under the slogan "Friday of Anger".
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
