Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie told court on Sunday that he "has been framed in about 41 cases and all of them are slander.. they are revenge for a political dispute after the military coup."
The Cairo Criminal Court postponed to February 1 the trial of Badie along with 50 others including hunger striking detainee Mohamed Soltan.
The defendants are being tried for managing an "operations room" following the dispersal of the two pro-Mohamed Mursi camps in August 2013. They are accused of using the operations room to "resist the state and spread chaos."
"We say to the Egyptian people that no right is lost..." Badie told the court. "The Egyptian people have tasted freedom for one full year during our reign."
Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters have often found themselves behind bars and facing courts since the ouster of Brotherhood members and former President Mursi in July 2013. A court in Minya has served Badie alongside over 1000 Brotherhood supporters preliminary death sentences last March and April.
The Brotherhood itself was listed as a terrorist organisation in December 2013.
The defense of hunger striking Soltan called on the judge overseeing the trial to recuse himself last week, yet the request was turned down.
Egyptian-American national Soltan has been on hunger strike for nearly a year; his life is believed to be in danger. He is the son of jailed Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Salah Soltan, who is also facing court for the same charge.
