Mohamed Badie, who is currently under detention, refused the interrogation as the military-appointed interim government has decided to put him and two other senior Brotherhood official on trial over ‘inciting deadly violence.’
Egypt’s state news agency, MENA, reported on Saturday that Badie and his two deputies, Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumy, would not attend the High Court session in Cairo on Sunday.
Egyptian authorities arrested the 70-year-old last week. Shater and Bayoumy had been arrested earlier.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s former dictator Hosni Mubarak is also set to appear in court on Sunday.
Mubarak, who was released from prison on August 22, is to face charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolution. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in June 2012. In January, however, Egypt’s highest appeals court ordered a retrial.
Mubarak is now under house arrest at a military hospital following his release from jail.
On July 3, the head of Egypt’s armed forces, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announced that the country’s President Mohamed Morsi was no longer in office.
Morsi, the country’s first democratically president, remains under arrest ever since.
Egypt has been the scene of deadly clashes since the ouster of Morsi.
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