Egypt today referred to military court the trial of 58 defendants belonging to an outlawed group over charges of terrorism, espionage, attempted killings and damaging public property.
General Prosecutor Hesham Barakat said that the defendants committed terrorist acts in Giza following the dispersal of the two Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Rabaa and Nahda.
A statement by Barakat said investigations showed that some Brotherhood leaders who had escaped to Turkey and Qatar collaborated - following the dispersal of the sit-ins - with other leaders in Giza to assassinate a number of police, army and judicial personnel and to attack public institutions.
"The defendants established a secret terrorist organisation and named it Unknown (people) against coup," the statement said.
The defendants are also accused of establishing and funding an outlawed group, espionage, attempted killings, resisting authority and damaging public properties among other charges.
Egypt's new government has launched a massive crackdown on the 87-year-old Brotherhood and its affiliated organisations since the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, a longtime Brotherhood official, in July 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
