The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned until Thursday the retrial of political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 other defendants over riot incidents that followed a protest outside the Shura Council in November 2013.
Abdel Fattah and his co-defendants are charged with blocking the traffic during demonstrations outside the Shura Council on November 26, 2013, demonstrating without permit and attacking policemen.
Abdel Fattah and 24 other defendants had been sentenced in absentia to 15 years, handed an EGP 100,000 fine, and put on parole for a period of five years. They had been found guilty of violating the Protest Law but were later granted a retrial.