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Mubarak retrial judge steps down
Former president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak appeared in court to face his retrial over the killing of protesters in 2011, only to have the judge step down.Wearing a white track suit, the 84-year-old former president was wheeled into court on a hospital gurney on Saturday to answer charges of complicity in the deaths of hundreds of demonstrators in 2011. Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah, however, almost immediately withdrew from the trial, signaling an indefinite adjournment. The judge said that he felt "unease" in reviewing the case and referred it to the Cairo appeals court. Saturday's proceedings were held at a police academy on the fringes of Cairo, where Mubarak had been flown to by helicopter. Posted by: ryuge 2013-04-13 |
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