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Egypt's state prosecutor says he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters. The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when seven people were killed in clashes. Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood are to stand trial on the same charges. Mr Morsi has been held at a secret location since he was ousted in July. The state prosecutor referred the former president for trial late on Sunday, Egypt's state media reported. They said he would go on trial on charges of "incitement to murder and violence" in December 2012. The date for the trial is yet to be announced. The deposed president has previously been accused of the "premeditated murder of some prisoners, officers and soldiers" when he and several Muslim Brotherhood leaders were freed during a breakout at a Cairo prison in January 2011. He is also alleged to have plotted attacks on jails in the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak and of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.