Trial of 31 over killing 4 Shiites adjourned to January 19

The Giza criminal court postponed the trial of 31 defendants in the 2013 murder of four Shiites in a Giza village to January 19.
Only two of the defendants are in custody but arrest warrants have been issued for the remaining 29.
They are facing charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder, unlawful assembly, arson, vandalism and illegal possession of firearms.
On 23 June 2013, the four Shiites were beaten to death in Abul-Nomros after Sunni villagers partially set their house on fire in one of the most serious sectarian incidents in Egypt in recent years.
The tension was triggered by an extremist religious discourse at a nearby mosque that accused the four of spreading the Shiite doctrine in the country.