Ousted former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ordered to be transferred back to prison from a military hospital on 18 April on the recommendation of a medical team after he appeared fitter at his aborted retrial. The prosecutor general’s office said it had decided Mubarak would be returned to Torah prison on the outskirts of Cairo. It did not say when he would be moved.
Earlier, it was announced that Mubarak’s retrial on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that overthrew him in 2011 would start on May 11 in Cairo.
Mubarak, 84, who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years before being toppled by the 18-day popular uprising in 2011, was convicted last June along with former Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli of failing to prevent the killing of more than 800 demonstrators, rather than actually ordering it.
Mubarak and Adli were sentenced to life imprisonment but the country’s highest appeals court ordered a retrial in January after accepting appeals from both the defence and prosecution.