CAIRO
The members of a student movement backing ousted president Mohamed Morsi staged a demonstration Sunday night against Morsi's trial on jailbreak charges outside the home of the investigation judge in the case.
The "Students against Coup" members assembled outside the home of judge Hassan Samir in the southern Cairo residential district of Helwan, carrying banners critical ofMorsi's trial.
The protesting students chanted against the Egyptian military, which ousted elected Morsi in July, and what they described as army-allied judges.
A Cairo court has set January 28 as the starting date for the trial of the ousted president and 130 others on charges of breaking out of prison during the 2011 January Revolution.
According to Samir's investigations, foreign operatives crossed the border into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula from the Gaza Strip during the revolution that led to the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.
The investigations claim that the operatives attacked police and government facilities in Sinai, leaving several policemen dead, before moving on to Wadi Natrun, Abu Zaabal and Al-Marg prisons in northern Cairo, all of which they allegedly broke into.
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