(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The Muslim Brotherhood group has called for mass demonstrations in Egypt on Tuesday to coincide with an anticipated court verdict against ousted president and Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi.
"The Egyptian people should rise up once again starting Tuesday to defend the popular will and legitimacy," the Brotherhood said in a statement on Monday.
An Egyptian court will issue a ruling on Tuesday in a case in which Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, is accused of inciting the murder of demonstrators outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential palace in 2012.
Tuesday's verdict will be the first against Morsi since his ouster and imprisonment by the army in mid-2013. Since then, he has been slapped with numerous criminal charges, which he and his supporters insist are politically motivated.
Morsi and 14 co-defendants, seven of whom are being tried in absentia, stand accused of inciting the murder of opposition demonstrators during clashes between Morsi's supporters and opponents outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential in late 2012.
Although a total of 11 people € including eight Morsi supporters € were killed in the violence, the trial only addresses the death of one reporter and two anti-Morsi demonstrators.
Morsi was ousted by the military in July of 2013 € after only one year in office € following protests against his presidency.
Since Morsi's ouster, Egyptian authorities have launched a relentless crackdown on dissent that has largely targeted Morsi's Islamist supporters, leaving hundreds dead and thousands behind bars.
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