A Cairo court postponed the appeals hearing of four members of the 6 April movement, who were arrested on the anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud protests in November, to Jan 13 on Wednesday.
The four 6 April members - Ahmed Saeed, Mustafa Ibrahim, Khaled Fathy and Mohamed Abdel Hameed - had been sentenced to two years in prison.
Public prosecution stated that the four are charged with cutting off public roads, disrupting traffic, protesting, and passing out documents and flyers calling for the overthrow of the state.
The defendants denied charges of illegal assembly, protesting without a permit, and calling for protests against the state’s institutions. Instead they maintain that they security forces arrested them as they were walking in the street.
In a separate incident, Dokki prosecution decided on Monday night to detain four other leading April 6 figures, Sherif el-Robi, Mahmoud Hesham, Ayman Abd el-Mageed, and Mohamed Nabeel, for 15 days pending investigations.
Prosecution charged the four defendants with protesting without a permit, possession of fireworks, and belonging to a banned group.
The April 6 movement condemned the arrests, which they claimed took place without, “legal backing” and demanded the release of their members.
The Cairo Court of Urgent Matters banned the April 6 movement in 2014, ordering the confiscation of its headquarters.
The movement's co-founders, Ahmed Maher and Mohamed Adel, are currently serving a three-year prison sentence. They were sentenced in December 2013 for violating the protest law.
Founded in 2008, April 6 is seen as one of the movements which sparked a popular uprising in 2011 which led to the overthrow of former president Hosni Mubarak.
