Mubarak to stand trial again over 2011 killing of protesters

Court accept the prosecution’s appeal against an earlier court ruling that dropped the case against Egypt's former ruler.

Updated - November 16, 2021 07:15 pm IST

Published - June 04, 2015 03:22 pm IST - CAIRO

In this May 9, 2015 photo, Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters with his son Gamal (left) inside a cage in a courtroom during their trial at the police academy, on the outskirts of Cairo.

In this May 9, 2015 photo, Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters with his son Gamal (left) inside a cage in a courtroom during their trial at the police academy, on the outskirts of Cairo.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising which forced him from power, the high court said on Thursday.

The judge accepted the public prosecution’s appeal against an earlier court ruling that >dropped the case against Mubarak.

Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron first for three decades, has already spent at least three years in prison for other cases.

The judge said the retrial, based on charges against him of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising centred around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, would begin on November 5, 2015.

Last month an Egyptian court >sentenced the former ruler and his two sons to three years in jail without parole in the retrial of a corruption case.

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