Cairo: An Egyptian court said on Wednesday it will deliver a verdict next April on deposed president Mohammad Mursi and 14 members of his Muslim Brotherhood group on charges of inciting the killing of protesters when he was in power, judicial sources said.
The Cairo Court set April 21 as the date for issuing the ruling in the case related to the killing of 10 Egyptians, including a photojournalist, outside the presidential palace in late 2012, the sources added.
The defendants are charged with inciting the murder of the anti-Islamist protesters, who were rallying against an interim constitution that made Mursi’s decrees beyond judicial oversight.
Mursi and co-defendants have pleaded not guilty, arguing that most of the victims were supporters of the Islamist leader. The accused could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Mursi was toppled by the army in mid-2013 following enormous street protests against his one-year rule.
He is being tried in other cases related to spying for foreign agencies and involvement in a mass prison escape during the 2011 uprising against his predecessor Husni Mubarak.
