CAIRO: More than 1,200 supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi face charges Saturday in the country's biggest trial since an August police crackdown, judicial sources said.
The mass trial is part of a crackdown by Egypt's military-installed authorities targeting Morsi's supporters who remain steadfast in demanding his reinstatement.
Morsi, Egypt's first elected and civilian president, was removed by the army last July. His ouster triggered widespread unrest across a deeply polarised country.
Among the defendants in Saturday's trial, to be held in Minya south of Cairo, will be the supreme guide of Morsi's now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, the sources said.
Some websites close to the Brotherhood reported that the trial would be held in six separate courts in Minya over six days, with some defendants expected to be tried in absentia.
The alleged attacks on individuals and public property are said to have taken place in southern Egypt in August, after security forces broke up two Cairo protest camps set up by Morsi supporters.
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