CAIRO, April 13 (Aswat Masriya) Egypt's prosecution on Sunday referred 220 people to a criminal court on charges of inciting violence during the third anniversary of the January uprising, a judicial source said.

The defendants face charges of resisting the authorities, assaulting security forces, possessing firearms and destroying public and private property, the judicial source told Aswat Masriya.  

They are also accused of attempted murder, possession of Molotov cocktails and disrupting traffic.

Clashes broke out across Egypt between protesters and security forces on January 25, killing more than 40 people.