Cairo: An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered a final retrial against long-time president Hosni Mubarak over complicity in killing hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime.
The Court of Cassation accepted the appeal filed by the general prosecution against an earlier court ruling that had dropped the charges against 87-year-old Mubarak and seven of his aides. It set November 5 to consider the case. The court's decision this time will be final and cannot be appealed.
Mubarak and seven former security commanders, including his former interior minister Habib al-Adly, were cleared in November last year, against charges of killing anti-government protesters during the 2011 revolution.
Mubarak was retried on charges of complicity in the killing of unarmed protesters during the January, 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.
In 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to 25 years in jail but the verdict was successfully appealed in January, 2013 as the presiding judge ruled that there was not enough evidence presented by the prosecution.
