A masked policeman stands guard outside of a police academy compound were the trial of ousted President Mohammed Morsi is held in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 4 2013. Egypt's deposed Islamist president was brought from the secret location of his four-month detention to face trial Monday on charges of incitement of violence and murder. It was Mohammed Morsi's first public appearance since his ouster in a coup on July 3. If convicted, Morsi - Egypt's first freely elected president - could face the death penalty. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo) FILE - In this Friday, July 13, 2012 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a joint news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian authorities switched the venue for the trial of the former Islamist president on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 a last-minute change made after the Muslim Brotherhood called for mass demonstrations at the original location. The trial of Morsi, now to be held east of the capital on Monday, could lead to another round of bloodshed as his supporters look likely to face an emboldened security apparatus that has boosted its forces for the hearing. AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File A riot policeman stands guard behind barbed wire outside of a police academy compound were the trial of ousted President Mohammed Morsi will be held in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 3, 2013. The deposed Islamist president is to go on trial Monday on charges of incitement of violence and murder, in what will be Morsi's first public appearance since his ouster in a coup on July 3. A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi raises his poster with Arabic that reads, "no to the coup," during a protest in front of the supreme constitutional court in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. If convicted, Morsi Egypt's first freely elected president could face the death penalty. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi makes the "Rabaa" sign, which has become a symbol of the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters had held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August, during a protest outside of a police academy compound were the trial of ousted President Mohammed Morsi will be held in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 4 2013. It was Morsi's first public appearance since his ouster in a coup on July 3. CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's deposed Islamist president was brought from the secret location of his four-month detention to face trial Monday on charges of incitement of violence and murder. The start of the hearing was delayed by nearly two hours over what security officials inside the courtroom said was a dispute over Morsi's refusal to wear a prison uniform, part of his rejection of the trial's legitimacy. The session later got underway - though it was not immediately known how the issue of Morsi's attire was resolved - but the proceedings were soon adjourned because the defendants - Morsi and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood figures - started chanting and disrupted the hearing. The adjournment, ordered by presiding judge Ahmed Sabry Youssef, was likely to last till later on Monday. Since his ouster, Morsi has been held at a secret military location. He was flown by helicopter early on Monday to the trial venue - a police academy in an eastern Cairo district. His co-defendants were taken to the venue from their jail in a suburb south of the city in armored police cars. If convicted, Morsi and the other defendants in the case could face the death penalty. The trial is fraught with risks and comes amid a highly charged atmosphere in a bitterly polarized nation, with a deepening schism 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. In a last-minute change, authorities on Sunday switched the trial's venue in a move apparently aimed at thwarting mass rallies planned by Morsi's Brotherhood. Security was tight around the police academy, with hundreds of black-clad riot police backed by armored vehicles deployed around the sprawling complex. Police helicopters hovered over the site. The final stretch of road leading to the academy was sealed off, with only authorized personnel and accredited journalists allowed to approach the facility. The academy is also being used for the re-trial of Morsi's predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, whose 29-year regime was toppled in a 2011 popular uprising. Mubarak is charged with failing to stop the killing of some 900 protesters during the 18-day uprising. Several hundred Morsi supporters rallied outside the police academy, carrying posters with his photo and banners depicting an open palm with four fingers - the symbol commemorating a pro-Morsi sit-in that was violently cleared by security forces in August. They also chanted slogans against Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the military chief who led the July coup. Across town, several hundred Morsi supporters also rallied outside the Supreme Constitutional Court and the capital's main court complex in the downtown area. "I came here to witness this farce," Gamal Azab, a Morsi supporter, said outside the police academy. I am not afraid of the police, but I am worried about my country. Since his detention, Morsi has had little communication with the outside world. He will likely represent himself in the trial, the first public figure to do so in the host of trials of politicians since Mubarak's ouster, Brotherhood lawyers have said. Morsi will also likely use the platform to insist he is still the legitimate president of Egypt, question the trial's legitimacy and turn it into an indictment of the July coup, further energizing his supporters in the street. During four months of detention, Morsi has been extensively questioned by prosecutors and has not been allowed to meet with lawyers. He has spoken at least twice by telephone to his family and received two foreign delegations. Morsi will face charges along with 14 other Brotherhood figures and allies - including top leaders Mohammed el-Beltagy and Essam el-Erian - in connection to clashes last December outside his presidential palace that left at least 10 dead. In those riots, Morsi supporters set upon peaceful protesters camped outside the Cairo palace. Day-long clashes followed and video clips posted on social networks showed Morsi supporters detaining and torturing opposition protesters outside the walls of the palace. The Brotherhood claims that most of the victims were Brotherhood supporters, but that assertion is disputed. Unlike Mubarak's first trial, the proceedings against Morsi are not likely to be aired live. After Monday's session, Morsi will probably be taken back to the secret location he has been held at, instead of being transferred to a normal prison, for fear his supporters would turn the prison surroundings into a "focal point of endless protests." The judge in Mubarak's retrial has ruled that those hearings would not be televised, a move seen as a reaction to the chaos that defined the first trial, when Mubarak and his security chief received life sentences. After the July coup, Egypt has witnessed one of its worst bouts of violence in decades. On Aug. 14, security forces violently cleared protest camps set up by Morsi supporters, sparking days of unrest that left more than 1,000 dead. Churches have been torched, and in an attack in Cairo last month, four Christian Copts and one Muslim were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a church. Cairo's traffic was lighter than usual for a Monday morning, suggesting that some of the capital's estimated 18 million residents have opted to stay home for fear of violence. Some private schools told parents to keep their children at home Monday, but state schools, government offices and banks were operating normally. Security was beefed up at vital installations across the country in anticipation of violence. A newspaper known for close ties to the military published on Sunday what appeared to be the first pictures of Morsi in detention. The daily el-Watan published a transcript of remarks it says were made by Morsi and captured on video, describing him as being "in total denial" and saying, "I am the president of the republic, in accordance with the constitution." Later in the day, it posted a video showing Morsi wearing a blue track suit, sitting on a chair and speaking calmly. International rights groups have called for a fair trial for Morsi. Morsi's family considers the trial illegitimate and will not attend, his son Osama told The Associated Press on Sunday. He said they feared they would be mistreated and humiliated. Associated Press reporters Mariam Rizk and Tony G. Gabriel contributed to this report from Cairo.