Hosni Mubarak ordered back to prison from military hospital for May retrial

A Cairo appeals court has ordered former Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak back to prison from military hospital.

Hosni Mubarak’s retrial will open on May, the court ruled.

The former leader is charged alongside his former interior minister and six former security chiefs with complicity in the murder and attempted murder of hundreds of protesters in January 2011.

Former Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has been ordered back to prison from military hospital

The retrial was meant to begin on April 13 but collapsed when the presiding judge withdrew from the case.

AFP news agency quotes judicial sources as saying that Judge Mahmud al-Rashidi will preside over the case at the North Cairo Criminal Court.

Hosni Mubarak will also face corruption charges, along with his sons, Alaa and Gamal, and businessman Hussein Salem.