Mubarak arrives at court for retrial

Cairo: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak arrived at a Cairo court on Saturday to face a new trial, after an appeal against the life sentence handed down against him was accepted. Television footage showed Mubarak, dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, wheeled out of an amublance on a stretcher and taken into Cairo’s Police Academy where the trial is being held. He had been transported first by helicopter from the Cairo military hospital where he is being treated, the official MENA news agency said. His two sons, Gamal and Alaa, and his former security chief Habib al-Adly, have also made their way to the court for the retrial, MENA said. A handful of Mubarak supporters stood outside the court house, holding posters of their former leader, but they were outnumbered by security officers. (AFP)