Egypt’s Mubarak faces next trial hearing on December 28

CAIRO (Reuters) – The next session in former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s trial will be on December 28, two days after a separate court convenes to decide whether to change the judges handling the case, the judge said on Sunday.

 

Mubarak, his two sons, the former interior minister and senior police officers, who face a range of charges including involvement in killing protesters, were in the Cairo court on Sunday when the judge announced the adjournment.

Lawyers representing families of those killed in the uprising which ousted Mubarak in February have raised a suit calling for presiding judge Ahmed Refaat and others on the judges’ panel be replaced.

Mubarak’s trial began on August 3 and is being held at the Police Academy on the outskirts of Cairo.

During court sessions, Mubarak has been wheeled in on a hospital stretcher and placed inside a cage used for defendants stand in criminal cases.

The 83-year-old former president had been held in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh but was moved to a hospital in Cairo for the start of the trial.

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