 [Al Ahram] Egypt's prosecutor-general Hesham Barakat has referred Moslem Brüderbund Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 14 others to the criminal court for alleged involvement in 15 July Giza festivities that left five dead.
Badie was referred to court along with leading Brotherhood members Mohamed El-Beltagy, Bassem Ouda and Essam El-Erian - the latter has not yet been tossed in the calaboose
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- in addition to Islamist preacher Safwat Hegazy and leading member of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya Assem Abd El-Magued, who is also still to on the lam, and nine others.
The prosecution accused Badie, El-Beltagy, El-Erian, Abd El-Magued and Hegazy of 'inciting violence and terrorism, murder, forming a gang to attack citizens and supplying it with arms and funds.'
The remaining suspects were accused of 'terrorising, crowding, murder, joining a group that attacked citizens, damaging private property and possessing arms.'
Five were killed in Al-Bahr Al-Azam area of Giza and in the vicinity of the nearby Cairo University, during fire-fights that broke out between pro-Morsi protesters and unknown assailants late on 15 July.
Two other people were killed in the Ramses area, downtown Cairo, in similar festivities that day.
Badie, along with six other leading members of the Brotherhood, are currently on trial facing charges of allegedly 'inciting murder' in festivities at the Brotherhood's headquarters in Moqattam, Cairo, on 30 June.
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