Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will face trial on charges of sponsoring terrorism and harming national security by conspiring with foreign organisations, a state prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Morsi was referred to trial at a criminal court along with 34 members from his Muslim Brotherhood and other senior aides.
The trial date has not yet been announced.
The defendants include Mohammed Badie, the head of the Muslim Botherhood, who is facing at least two separate trials related to inciting attacks against anti-Islamist opponents.
Another key defendant is Khayrat al-Shater, seen as an influential strategist and main financier of the Islamist group.
The defendants are accused of colluding with the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah and other radical groups to carry out terrorist operations in Egypt, state-run newspaper al-Ahram reported.
They are also charged with smuggling arms into Egypt and disclosing state information “harming the country’s independence and territorial integrity,” the report added.
If convicted, they may face the death sentence.
Morsi was toppled by the military in July, after millions of Egyptians took to the streets calling for the country’s first democratically elected President to step down.
Morsi faces a separate trial in which he is accused of inciting protesters’ deaths. That process is to resume on January 8.