Re-trial of Badie, other Muslim Brotherhood figures in Rabaa operation room case adjourned

The Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned to August 3 the re-trial of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood guide Mohammad Badie and other 36 leaders and members of the banned group over their involvement in the armed sit-in of Cairo's Rabaa Al Adawiya Square.

The court decision was taken to hear the pleadings in the case.

Senior members of the terrorist group including businessman Omar Hassan Malik are among the convicts.

They were accused of forming an operations room to direct the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood members to defy the government during the Rabaa sit-in dispersal and to spread chaos in the country

They were also convicted of circulating fake news with the aim of undermining public security.

Earlier, a lawyer court has confirmed the death sentence on Badie and 13 others along with jailing 37 others for life in the same case.

The prosecution accused Badie, aided by other Brotherhood members, including former spokesman and Guidance Bureau member Mahmoud Ghozlan, of plotting to spread chaos in the country, break into police stations, government institutions, private properties, and churches.

Defendants are also accused of fabricating pictures and scenes that imply fatalities and injuries among demonstrators during the dispersal of the pro-Mohamad Morsi sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adaweya on 14 August. 

The prosecution also said that the Brotherhood leaders prepared false statements to mislead the public.

Source : MENA