CAIRO, Aug 20 (Aswat Masriya) – The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Wednesday the trial of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi over complicity in killing protesters.

Mursi is accused, alongside 14 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, of killing, torturing and inciting violence against protesters outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace during his tenure in December 2012.

The trial was postponed to Monday after the defence team failed to show up in court.

The trial will resume amid a gag order against media coverage, imposed since April.

Other defendants in the case include senior Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and Brotherhood leaders Essam el-Erian and Mohamed El-Beltagy.

Clashes erupted between Mursi supporters and anti-Mursi protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on December 5, 2012. Protesters were holding a sit-in against a constitutional declaration issued by Mursi in November, criticised for giving him sweeping powers.

The former president, ousted since July 2013, is implicated in a group of other court cases. He is being tried for escaping from the Wadi al-Natroun prison during the 18-day January 25 uprising in 2011, insulting the judiciary, and espionage.