Egypt's Mubarak to face retrial over killing of protesters
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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.
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![A supporter of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak holding his portrait reacts at a court in Cairo, Egypt, on June 4, 2015. 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. [Photo/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20150605/001aa0ba3c1616db34e802.jpg "A supporter of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak holding his portrait reacts at a court in Cairo, Egypt, on June 4, 2015. 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. [Photo/Xinhua]") |
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A supporter of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak holding his portrait reacts at a court in Cairo, Egypt, on June 4, 2015. 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. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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.
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