Two leading Muslim Brotherhood figures were absent Monday in the first session of their trial on charges of defaming the Supreme Constitutional Court.
The court decided to adjourn the trial to the next session, set for 11 October.
The law gives the right to those accused of misdemeanors to not attend the court session, provided they appoint a lawyer to plead for them.
The public prosecutor accused former MP Nasser al-Hafy and Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud, the Brotherhood’s lawyer, of defaming the Supreme Constitutional Court after they released statements accusing the court of forging the verdict to dissolve the People’s Assembly in May.
The prosecution said the defendants falsely accused the court and its president of sending the verdict to dissolve the People’s Assembly to the print house to be published in the Egyptian Gazette, the official bulletin in which laws are published, before the hearing session was held and the verdict was declared.
Edited translation from MENA
