Retrial of MB leaders adjourned to July 27

PORT SAID, June 15 (MENA) - Port Said Criminal Court decided on Saturday to adjourn till July 27 the retrial of 47 leaders and members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group including the group leader Mohamed Badie.

The defendants are charged with committing acts of incitement, violence and murder in a case known in the media as Arab police station incidents in Port Said in 2013.

The Court of Cassation revoked in May verdicts ranging between harsh imprisonment and life sentences for the defendants and ordered their retrial.

In August 2015, the Port Said Criminal Court handed down life sentences against MB leaders Badie, Mohamed el Beltagui and Safwat Hegazy over incitement to storm the Arab police station to kill policemen.