The country's chief prosecutor accused the group - known as
the Helwan Brigades - of killing six policemen and possessing
weapons and ammunition.
More than half of those charged are already in custody.
Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested
since then-army head Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the group
from power in 2013 and later banned it.
Mr al-Sisi was elected president last year and continued the
campaign against the brotherhood and other Islamist groups.
On Sunday Prosecutor Hesham Barakat said in a statement
that the Helwan Brigades - named after a district in the south
of Cairo - had killed the six policemen and wounded several
civilians in attacks in the city.
Earlier this month, a Egyptian court upheld death sentences on
183 supporters of the Islamist group over a 2013 attack on a
police station near Cairo.
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