Egypt will put on trial eight people including Islamist leaders and an Al-Jazeera journalist on charges of inciting "torture" during the 2011 uprising, judicial sources said today.
A date has yet to be fixed for the trial of the eight, who also include a former minister, the sources said.
The group has been accused of "inciting the torture of a lawyer in Tahrir Square after accusing him of being an officer of the state security" during the uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.
The defendants include Mahmoud El-Khodeiry, a former judge close to the Muslim Brotherhood, Osama Yassin, youth minister under the government of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, and Ahmed Mansour, an anchor with Al-Jazeera television.
Morsi's Islamist supporters have been the target of a massive crackdown since the military ousted him on July 3 following protests marking his single year of turbulent rule.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in the crackdown, while thousands have been arrested, most of them Islamists.
