CAIRO
Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi staged morning rallies and formed human chains in three different parts of the country on Thursday to protest Morsi's ongoing trial on incitement-to-murder charges.
Members of the "7Elsob" ("7am") group organized a human chain in the Nile Delta city of Faqous to protest the trial of Morsi and 14 other defendants charged with inciting the murder of opposition demonstrators outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential palace in late 2012.
Trial proceedings were recently adjourned to March 1.
Protesters waved photos of Morsi and of pro-Morsi demonstrators killed by security forces since last July's ouster of the elected president by the military.
Another human chain was formed in Qalyoubia north of Cairo to protest what organizers described as "military rule."
Demonstrators flashed the four-fingered Rabaa salute in memory of hundreds of pro-Morsi demonstrators killed in the violent dispersal of two protest camps in Cairo and Giza last August.
Pro-democracy demonstrators also staged a rally in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya to protest Morsi's ongoing trial.
Along with the incitement-to-violence charge, Morsi is also being tried for allegedly "conspiring" with Palestinian faction Hamas, escaping from jail and "offending" Egypt's judiciary.
By Gamal Abdel-Moez
englishnews@aa.com.tr
