Cairo Criminal Court has resumed Thursday the retrial of 77 defendants, formerly sentenced in absentia, over the case known in the press as the "Cabinet Events", al-Bawaba News reported. The defendants face charges of setting fire to the headquarters of Egypt's cabinet as well as the parliament, the Shura council and the Scientific Complex in downtown Cairo. Judicial sources added the defendants also face charges of illegally possessing knives and Molotov cocktail. The incident dates back to November, 2011 when hundreds of activists demonstrated near the parliament in protests against the dispersal of a sit-in in the Tahrir Square, a landmark of the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak, and the appointment of Kamal al-Ganzouri as the country's prime minister.