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Court adjourns Mubarak trial, bars lawyers
View(s):CAIRO, June 8 (AFP) – An Egyptian court in the retrial of fallen dictator Hosni Mubarak for alleged complicity in the killings of protesters barred lawyers in civil cases from the proceedings at a brief session today.
Presiding judge Mahmoud al-Rashidi adjourned the court to Monday, shortly after opening the second hearing in Mubarak’s retrial, a criminal case.
Mubarak, 85, watched the proceedings while sitting up on a stretcher inside the defendants’ cage, shared with seven of his former security commanders and his two sons.
His original trial led to a life sentence for Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly, and acquittals for six police commanders.
But an appeals court ordered a retrial, citing procedural errors.
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