[Ynet] An Egyptian court on Tuesday opened another mass trial of Islamist suspects, with 683 defendants - including the Moslem Brüderbund's top leader - facing an array of charges, from murder and inciting violence to sabotage.The proceedings in Minya, south of Cairo, came a day after the same court handed down death sentences to nearly 530 suspected backers of ousted president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
over a deadly attack on a cop shoppe.
| Only 68 of the 683 defendants were in the dock Tuesday. The rest are being tried in absentia. |
The charges in Tuesday's proceedings also stemmed from rioting last August sparked by the security forces' storming of two Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo that killed over 600 people.
Only 68 of the 683 defendants were in the dock Tuesday. The rest are being tried in absentia. A handful of other defendants held in the case, including the Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohammed Badei and other senior figures who are enjugged
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in Cairo, were not present at the trial in Minya. Authorities cited security reasons for not bringing them to the hearings.