CAIRO: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been ordered back to prison from military hospital.
Mubarak’s retrial will open on 11 May, a Cairo appeals court says.
He 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.
The retrial was meant to begin on 13 April 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.
Mubarak will also face a retrial or corruption charges, along with his sons, Alaa and Gamal, and businessman Hussein Salem. They were found not guilty the first time round.
Mubarak was convicted last June of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 revolt. He was sentenced to life in prison.
On Monday, a court ruled Mr Mubarak could no longer be held in prison on the charges related to the killings of protesters. His lawyer successfully argued that he had spent the maximum time in prison under temporary detention.
However, he remains in custody on the corruption charges. (Agencies)
