Morsi’s nephew faces trial for attempted murder

Former President Mohamed Morsi’s nephew Mohamed Saied was referred to the Zagazig Criminal Court with five other students on charges of the attempted murder of a classmate, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

The defendants, all students at Zagazig University, are accused of assaulting another student and inflicting critical injuries following a scuffle between pro- and anti-Muslim Brotherhood students on the university campus.

The violence occurred when the Brotherhood-affiliated students were marching in a protest against the military-backed interim government. They chanted slogans against the police and Armed Forces, and called for a boycott of the constitutional referendum.

The victim reportedly criticized their statements, which allegedly provoked the assault.

The university’s administrative guards had the victim transported to the hospital, and arrested the students accused of the assault.

Also on Monday, the trial of 36 Brotherhood members accused of burning a Heliopolis metro station was adjourned to January 26 by the Nasr City Misdemeanor Court, reported the privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm (AMAY).

The defendants were allegedly involved in violence in Nasr City and Heliopolis which lead to the death of two people and injured several more.

They are also accused of vandalizing public and private property and using Molotov Cocktails to set two metro vehicles ablaze.

Meanwhile, the assets of 11 Brotherhood leaders in the northern governorate of Kafr al-Sheikh were confiscated upon the order of a representative of a committee tasked with moderating the funds of the banned Islamist organization, MENA reported.

The list of the leaders include members of the Brotherhood’s guidance bureau in the governorate and leaders in its political branch, the Freedom and Justice Party.

The committee was formed following a court order banning all Brotherhood activities and ordering the confiscation of the group’s assets.

Also on Monday, a travel ban imposed on Judge Hossam al-Gheriany was appealed.

Gheriany — the former head of the Brotherhood-dominated Constituent Assembly that drafted the 2012 Constitution, and former head of the Supreme Judicial Council — was banned from traveling pending investigations into charges that he collaborated with other judges to form the "Judges for Egypt" coalition, an umbrella group of judges that supported Morsi’s presidency.