Mubarak enters Egypt court for retrial, waves to supporters

CAIRO – An upbeat and alert-looking Hosni Mubarak has been wheeled into a Cairo courtroom for his retrial for alleged complicity in the killing of nearly 900 demonstrators during the 2011 revolt that ousted him.

The former Egyptian president, wearing brown-tinted glasses, waved from inside the courtroom cage in his Sunday court appearance. He was airlifted to the court from a Cairo hospital. His two sons and former interior minister, currently held in prison for separate cases, were also in the courtroom cage.

An Egyptian appeals court granted Mubarak a retrial and overturned his life sentence in January, citing shoddy procedures.

Unconfirmed reports have emerged several times in the past year suggesting that Mubarak was on the brink of death.

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