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2nd LD: Egypt's Mubarak to face retrial over killing of protesters

Xinhua, June 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

Egypt's Court of Cassation, the country's highest legal authority, on Thursday ordered a retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters in 2011, state-run MENA news agency reported.

The retrial, the second for Mubarak over the protester killing case, was scheduled for Nov. 5, and the rulings will be final and cannot be further appealed.

The court accepted the public prosecution's appeal, filed last December, against the court ruling in November that acquitted Mubarak and a number of other defendants.

According to the court ruling on Thursday, Mubarak will be the only one to face retrial. The others, including Mubarak's two sons Alaa and Gamal, fugitive businessman Hussein Salem and former interior minister Habib el Adly and six of his aides, will not be retried.

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.

Mubarak was also cleared in two other corruption cases last November.

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