CAIRO: Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was brought on Monday to a courthouse to face trial over protester deaths, raising fears of renewed violence four months after the army toppled him.

Morsi’s supporters, battered by a bloody and sweeping police crackdown, accuse the army-installed government of fabricating the charges against him and have called for protests against the military.

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