Minister of Justice Adel Abdel Hamid has ordered the transfer of the Cairo Criminal Court sessions which will consider the case of Mohamed Mahmoud clashes, which includes 379 defendants, to the Police Academy in New Cairo next Tuesday.

The minister also decided to transfer the court sessions of the Cabinet of Ministers clashes scheduled for July 29 to the Police Academy as well, Judge Mohamed Manie, assistant minister of justice for court affairs, said.

The judicial investigations body in the Mohamed Mahmoud clashes accused the defendants of torching Abdeen’s and Qasr al-Nile’s Real Estate Tax Office, burning police cars, inflicting injuries on 179 policemen and officers and damaging the front of the American University in Cairo building.