Judge Moustafa Hassan Abdallah announced his refusal to preside over the case after the 84-year old Mubarak was delivered to court at a Cairo police academy from the military hospital where he is currently being detained.The judge said he did not want to “embarrass” himself, and referred the case to the Cairo appeals court.Once the court session ended, the same army helicopter that brought Mubarak to court returned him to the military hospital.The former Egyptian president will face the same charges of complicity in the mass-murder of nearly 900 protesters during the country's Arab Spring uprising in February 2011.Mubarak has already been sentenced to life in prison for his suppression of the revolution in Egypt two years ago, but in January 2013 an appeals court overturned that ruling and ordered a retrial.The judge also ordered a retrial of former Interior Minister Habib Al Adly, who is serving a life sentence.Judge Moustafa Hassan Abdallah also reopened corruption and murder trials against six of Mubarak’s top security officers, a business partner of the former president and two of his sons; all nine of the co-defendants had previously been acquitted. … Read More
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