Three members of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood were ordered Saturday to stand trial on charges of possessing weapons and provoking violence during parliamentary elections late last year, court officials said. The group is officially banned but is tolerated to a degree by the government.
The three were arrested during the violent election season which saw at least 10 people killed in violence mainly blamed on security forces trying to block opposition voters from reaching the polls. The charges emerged from telephone taps on the phones of Abdulal Hasan al-Najjar, a farmer, and university professor Hasan Mahmoud al-Haywan, who authorities claimed discussed assembling an arsenal of 400 automatic rifles and preparations to use them against the government.
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