The retrial of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, over his role in the deaths of protesters during the country’s uprising has been adjourned to June 8 till the presiding judge has gone through the new evidence. Mubarak, his interior minister Habib al-Adly, and six security chiefs faced court again over their role in the murder and attempted murder of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators between January 25 and January 31, 2011. The fresh retrial was originally scheduled on April 13, but Judge Mostafa Hassan Abdallah excused himself from proceedings in an opening session that lasted just seconds. Mubarak’s sons Gamal and Alaa are being retried on corruption charges along with their father. Businessman Hussein Salem is being tried in absentia. Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, reporting from outside the courthouse in Cairo, said that the prosecutor listed out the charges of corruption and murder at Saturday’s hearing. All defendants have denied the accusations addressed to them by the public prosecutor in the session and pleaded not guilty.
