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1st LD: Egypt's Mubarak to face retrial over killing of protesters

Xinhua, June 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Egyptian court ruled on Thursday to have former president Hosni Mubarak retried over a case involving the killing of protesters in 2011, accepting an appeal against his acquittal last November.

The court accepted the public prosecution's appeal, filed last December, against the court ruling that acquitted Mubarak in the case of killing protesters in 2011.

The retrial, the second for Mubarak over the protester killing case, was scheduled for Nov. 5.

Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring in murdering 239 demonstrators, but an appeals court ordered a retrial which, after several postponements, was held last November and resulted in his acquittal.

The 86-year-old former president is serving a three-year prison term on a separate graft charge after being convicted in May 2014. He has been in detention since April 2011. Endit