Prosecution services in Minya, Upper Egypt, referred on Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and more than 600 other Brotherhood leaders to criminal trial on 22 March over charges of violence in the city Adwa last August, following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsy and the dispersal of sit-ins staged by his backers in Cairo.
The defendants are facing charges of endangering public security, assaulting private and public properties and possessing firearms during the assaults.
The referral petition said charges of premeditated murders are also related to previous charges, including those of police sergeant Mamdouh Qutb.
Adwa was hit by a wave of violence, robbery and assaults on police facilities following the breakup of sit-ins in Cairo's Rabaa al-Adaweya and al-Nahda squares on 14 August.
Badie is already on several trials related to post-Morsy violence.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
