CAIRO: A Cairo court postponed the trial yesterday of 26 alleged Islamist militants accused of planning attacks against the Egyptian state, after the defendants shouted at the judge overseeing the case.
They specifically objected to court officials putting one of them in a separate cage, and called Judge Shaaban El Shamy a corrupt figure from deposed leader Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
“There is no judgement except by God. Allah is great, Allah is great” and “You are from the corrupt era, you are from the former regime,” they shouted at the judge.
Shamy ended the day’s session, the first in the trial, by saying the defendants’ lawyers had requested more time to prepare the case for the group, which includes two former army officers. The trial would resume on June 15, he said.
Reuters
