Egypt to retry Mubarak

An Egyptian appeals court will retry former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising, after annulling a decision to drop murder charges against the former strongman.

The Court of Cassation on Thursday accepts the prosecution’s appeal against the dismissal of the murder charge leveled at Mubarak, who had initially been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The court “accepts the prosecution’s appeal and has set a session for November 5 to review it,” Judge Anwar El-Gabry announces.

It was not immediately clear if the court would issue a new verdict then, or if that would be the start date for any retrial, according to Mubarak’s defense team.

— AFP