The Cairo criminal court will resume Saturday the trial of ousted president, Mohamed Morsi and 10 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) defendants over leaking classified documents related to Egypt's national security to Qatar, al-Bawaba News reported. Meanwhile, a criminal court in Al-Minya province, southern Egypt, will resume Saturday the trial of 349 MB affiliates over violence-related charges following the dispersal of Rabia and El-Nahda sit-ins, Aug. 2013. The defendants face charges of sabotaging Matai police station, murdering police colonel, Mustafa al-Attar, and inciting against police and military forces. The MB group has repeatedly been blamed for a series of terrorist attacks against vital institutions and police personnel following the ouster of MB president Mohamed Morsi, July 2013 amid mass street protests. The group was listed as a terrorist group in Sept. 2013. In Port Said, northeast the country, a criminal court will resume Saturday the retrial of seven defendants over killing 72 football fans and wounding 254 others in a case known in the Egyptian press as "The Port Said Massacre". The massacre occurred at the end of an Egyptian league match between Cairo's al- Ahly and al-Masry clubs in February 2011, days after the break out of the 2011 uprising that overthrew the 30-year autocrat rule of Hosni Mubarak. The defendants, who face charges of premeditated murder and illegal possession of weapons, were delivered death rulings in absentia over the same accusations.
