03.08.2011                      03.Aw-Elul, 5771

Ägypten:

Mubarak leaves Sharm hospital to stand trial in Cairo

Former Egyptian president transported from hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo for trial on charges of killing protesters.

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak flew to Cairo on Wednesday where he will be tried for conspiring to kill protesters, the first Arab ruler to be put in the dock since uprisings swept the region.
Speculation swirled in the hours before the trial about whether the 83-year-old, hospitalized in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea since April, would turn up in a court set up in the 
Police Academy in Cairo and with a cage for defendants….