An Egyptian military court has postponed the trial over 2013 clashes of the opposition party Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide and 198 others.

An army official said on Monday that the session had been delayed until March 9.

The trial, which would be Mohamed Badie’s first military trial, is expected to see the Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and the rest of the defendants standing in the dock accused of participating in clashes in the canal city of Suez between August 14 and 16, 2013.

The clashes erupted after police brutally broke up two protest camps in the capital, Cairo, belonging to the supporters of the then president, Mohamed Morsi, on August 14 that year.

Badie has already been sentenced by three separate criminal courts to three life terms, and he was also handed down two death sentences that were later overturned on appeal.

Brotherhood-backed Morsi was elected president after Egypt’s 2011 revolution that led to the overthrow of former dictator, Hosni Mubarak. Morsi (pictured below) was later ousted in a military coup led by former head of the armed forces and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013.

The chief executive is facing several trials on charges that are punishable by death, while the Brotherhood has been designated a “terrorist group.”

The Egyptian government has been cracking down on any opposition since Morsi was ousted. Sisi has been accused of leading the suppression of Morsi supporters, as hundreds of them have been killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces over the past year.

Rights groups say the army’s crackdown on the supporters of Morsi has led to the deaths of over 1,400 people and the arrest of 22,000 others, including some 200 people who have been sentenced to death in mass trials.