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Egypt's court to rule in murder retrial of ex-leader Mubarak | Egypt's court to rule in murder retrial of ex-leader Mubarak |
(about 7 hours later) | |
An Egyptian court has gathered to deliver its verdict in the retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak on charges of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising. | |
An appeals court last year overturned a life sentence given to Mubarak in 2012 on technical grounds and the 86-year-old denies all the charges against him. | |
He is currently serving a three-year sentence for embezzling public funds. | |
More than 800 people were killed in the weeks before Mubarak was ousted. | |
A lawyer for victims, Hoda Nasrallah, said she was worried that renewed empathy for Mubarak could have an impact on the judge's ruling. | |
Amal Shaker, mother of 25-year-old Ahmed who was fatally shot in the back during the 2011 uprising, said she was still waiting for justice. | |
"Youth that were like flowers were killed," she told AP news agency. "Four years have passed, where is the trial?" | |
The court is also due to rule in the retrial of Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa on separate corruption charges. | |
'Same regime' | |
Mubarak was flown by helicopter from the military hospital where he is being held under house arrest, to the Cairo police academy where his trial is taking place. | |
Armed police escorted him as he lay on a hospital trolley. | |
In 2012, Mubarak - along with former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly - was sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the deaths of demonstrators in 2011. | |
Those convictions were overturned in January of last year on technical grounds and a retrial was ordered. | |
Mubarak's elected successor as president, Islamist Mohamed Morsi, lasted only a year in power before being ousted by the military in July 2013 during mass anti-government protests. | |
Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was subsequently elected in his place and under his rule, TV stations and newspapers have largely dropped criticism of the Mubarak era, correspondents say. | |
Mahmoud Ibrahim Ali, whose wife was killed during the 2011 uprising, has little faith in the judiciary, believing it simply does the government's bidding. | |
"The regime is the same," he told AP. "Names have changed but everything is the same.'' | |
At least two demonstrators died in clashes on Friday between Islamist protestors and police in the capital Cairo. | |
The protests were called by an ultra-conservative Salafi group, which opposed the overthrow of Mr Morsi. | The protests were called by an ultra-conservative Salafi group, which opposed the overthrow of Mr Morsi. |
The group asked protestors to defend what it called Egypt's "Islamic identity". | The group asked protestors to defend what it called Egypt's "Islamic identity". |
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