Egypt?s former president?Hosni Mubarak will face a retrial over the life sentence he received for?failing to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that ended his regime nearly two years ago.
Judge Ahmed Ali Abdel-Rahman said Mubarak?s security chief Habib el-Adly, who is also?serving a life sentence,?will be retried as well.
The decision follows appeals against their convictions.
Mubarak is under investigation on other charges, so will not walk free regardless of the outcome of the retrial.
A new Mubarak trial could be popular, since many Egyptians were angry he was convicted for failing to stop the killings, rather than ordering the crackdown.
Mubarak?s defence lawyers had argued that the former president did not know of the killings.
But Egyptian officials found that he watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed at his palace.
That report has mixed implications for Mubarak?s successor, Islamist Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It also implicates the military and security officials in the protesters? deaths. ?As a number of them are still in power, any attempt to?prosecute them could spark a backlash.
Abdel-Rahman also overturned not guilty verdicts against Mubarak, his two sons and an associate of the former president, Hussein Salem, on corruption charges. Salem was tried in absentia and remains at large.
And the judge ordered the retrial of six of El-Adly?s top aides who were acquitted in the same trial.
No date has been set for the start of the retrial of the 11.
In addition, a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mubarak yesterday, over millions of Egyptian pounds worth of gifts he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt?s top newspaper, Al-Ahram, as a show of loyalty while he was in power.
The 84-year-old ex-president remains in a military hospital. He was reportedly close to death last year, but the current state of his health is unknown.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/13/egypt-ex-president-mubarak-granted-retrial-3349831/
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