CAIRO
An Egyptian court on Monday adjourned until Saturday the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 others charged with inciting the murder of demonstrators outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential palace in late 2012, a judicial source said.
In Monday's closed-door session, judges heard testimony from prosecution witnesses – all of whom were police officers from the Heliopolis police station – regarding 2012 clashes that erupted between Morsi's supporters and opponents outside the palace, the source said.
The court is set to continue hearing security officials' accounts of the deadly incidents, the judicial source added.
On Sunday, judges heard testimony from Ahmed Gamal al-Din, the interior minister at the time of the clashes.
One day earlier, the court heard testimony from four Republican Guard officers.
Morsi and his 14 co-defendants, seven of whom are being tried in absentia, are charged with inciting the murder of opposition demonstrators outside the palace in late 2012.
While a total of 11 people – including eight Morsi supporters – were killed in the clashes, the trial only addresses the death of one reporter and two anti-Morsi protesters.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, was ousted by the military last July – after only one year in office – following protests against presidency.
He currently faces four different trials for multiple charges, including espionage, jailbreak and "offending the judiciary."
Morsi, along with all of his co-defendants, insists that the charges are politically motivated.
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