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Egypt refers 379 Brotherhood members to criminal court

Xinhua, April 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

Egypt's prosecutor general Hesham Barakat referred Wednesday 379 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group to criminal court over inciting violence and killing, official news agency MENA reported.

The defendants were accused of committing acts of violence, premeditated murder, weapons possession, attacking public institutions during the security dispersal of the Nahda Islamist sit-in in Giza on August 14, 2013, following the ouster of the Islamist leader Mohamed Morsi.

Since the military ousted the Brotherhood's Morsi, the new leadership has been waging a massive crackdown on the group and its supporters and blacklisting the group as "a terrorist organization."

Thousands of the group leaders and members were detained and hundreds were still facing trials, while some other hundreds were handed death or life sentences over killing and violence.

Morsi himself is on trial over various charges including 2011 jailbreak, espionage, ordering the killing of protesters, insulting the judiciary and leaking classified documents to Qatar.

The group has been accused of targeting the army and police with attacks that killed hundreds of security personnel, the charges that its leaders have repeatedly denied. Endit