The trial of Mislim Brotherhood ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi over the deaths of protesters resumed Saturday, days after he shouted from the dock in a separate case that he was the legitimate Egyptian president.

The trial of Mislim Brotherhood ousted Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi over the deaths of protesters resumed Saturday, days after he shouted from the dock in a separate case that he was the legitimate Egyptian president.

An Islamist coalition backing the deposed leader called for nationwide protests Saturday in a statement to "support the legitimate elected president."

Saturday's hearing at a heavily guarded police academy in Cairo is the third session in the trial, in which Mursi and 14 others are accused of inciting the killing of opposition protesters in December 2012 outside the presidential palace.

The previous hearing had been adjourned over "weather conditions" that prevented Mursi's transport to court from prison in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.

Morsi is facing four separate trials, and at the first hearing of another trial on January 28 the defiant Islamist insisted he was still the legitimate president of Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organization late last year, with any public show of support punishable by lengthy jail terms.