Deposed president brought from secret detention location to face charges of incitement of violence and murder. Egypt's deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, has been brought from the secret location of his four-month detention to face trial on charges of incitement of violence and murder.

Moris's appearance on Monday at a police academy in an eastern Cairo district was his first public appearance since his military-orchestrated overthrow on July 3. If convicted, Morsi - Egypt's first freely elected president - could face the death penalty. Since his toppling, Morsi has been held at a secret military location. He was flown Monday to the venue of his trial by helicopter.

His co-defendants, 14 senior members of his Muslim Brotherhood, were taken to the venue from their jail in a suburb south of the city, in armoured police cars. The proceedings were expected to start by mid-morning on Monday. The trial is fraught with risks and comes amid a highly charged atmosphere in a bitterly polarised nation, with a deepening rift between Morsi's Islamist supporters in one hand and Egypt's security establishment and the nation's moderate Muslims, secularists, Christians and women on the other.

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