A Cairo court Saturday deferred the trial of 26 Hizbollah-linked suspects until Tuesday, when evidence by the State Security Prosecution will be heard. "The hearing will resume on January 26 after a medical examination of three defendants, including a Lebanese national," Judge Adel Abdel Salam Gomaa said. In a surprise move, the defendants' lawyers withdrew a previous request to question the main witnesses, mostly policemen, calling it ‘good-for-nothing' for the defence of the accused. "We discussed the cancellation of the questioning with all the defendants' lawyers, who accepted our proposal," said Mohamed Selim el-Awa, a lawyer for two Lebanese nationals and three Egyptians. Egyptian authorities announced in April that it had uncovered a plot by 49 men with alleged links to Hizbollah to destabilise the country by carrying out attacks on Egyptian institutions and Israeli tourists in the Sinai Peninsula. Of these, only 26--18 Egyptians, two Lebanese, one Sudanese and five Palestinians--were put to trial, four of them are being tried in absentia.