An opponent to the Muslim Brotherhood set fire to a portrait of ousted president Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration outside the police academy where was supposed to take place the second hearing in his murder trial on January 8, 2014 in Cairo. An Egyptian court adjourned the hearing to February 1, citing “weather conditions” that prevented Morsi’s transport to court from prison.
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Thousands of people have been arrested in the crackdown on the Islamists (AFP Photo)
Egyptian men remove burnt cars set on fire by Muslim Brotherhood supporters during clashes with police in Nasr City, on January 8, 2014.
A supporter of Muslim Brotherhood ousted president Mohamed Morsi, flashing the “Rabaa” sign, is arrested by Egyptian policemen outside the police academy where takes place the second hearing in his murder trial on January 8, 2014 in Cairo. Toppled by the military in July, Morsi is charged with inciting the killings of opposition activists in clashes outside the presidential palace in December 2012.
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The El Nadeem Centre for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence has documented hundreds of torture cases inside prisons in April. (AFP Photo)
AFP- An Egyptian court on Wednesday adjourned the murder trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi to February 1, citing “weather conditions” that prevented the Islamist’s transport to court from prison.
It had been scheduled as the second hearing in Morsi’s trial, after an initial court appearance in November in which he denounced the tribunal and insisted he was still the country’s president.
“Because of the weather conditions, Mohamed Morsi could not be brought, so the trial will be adjourned to February 1,” said presiding judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef.
Morsi is held in prison some 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
He is on trial with 14 co-defendants, but only several were brought Wednesday to the makeshift court house in a police academy on Cairo’s outskirts.
Elsewhere, police fired tear gas at Morsi supporters who had rallied in protest at the trial.
In Cairo’s Nasr City neighbourhood, tyres were burnt and some car windows were smashed during brief clashes.
The interior ministry said 17 people had been arrested.
