[h=3]Associated Press[/h]CAIRO—A court granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence in a Sunday hearing, ordering a retrial of the ousted Egyptian president on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that toppled his regime nearly two years ago.
The ruling read out by judge Ahmed Ali Abdel-Rahman during a brief hearing also granted the appeal of Mubarak's security chief Habib el-Adly, who is also serving a life sentence after his conviction on the same charges. He too will be retried.
No date has been set for their retrial.
The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mr. Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds (hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars) he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power.
The public funds prosecutor ordered Mr. Mubarak held for 15 days pending the completion of the investigation. Mr. Mubarak, 84, was moved to a Cairo military hospital last month after slipping inside a prison bathroom and injuring himself.
Mr. Mubarak's two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and businessman Alaa, are in prison while on trial for alleged insider trading and using their influence to buy state land at a fraction of its market price. The two were acquitted of corruption charges in the same case as Mr. Mubarak, but Mr. Abdel-Rahman on Sunday said the court has granted the prosecution's appeal against their not-guilty verdict.
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The ruling read out by judge Ahmed Ali Abdel-Rahman during a brief hearing also granted the appeal of Mubarak's security chief Habib el-Adly, who is also serving a life sentence after his conviction on the same charges. He too will be retried.
No date has been set for their retrial.
The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mr. Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds (hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars) he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power.
The public funds prosecutor ordered Mr. Mubarak held for 15 days pending the completion of the investigation. Mr. Mubarak, 84, was moved to a Cairo military hospital last month after slipping inside a prison bathroom and injuring himself.
Mr. Mubarak's two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and businessman Alaa, are in prison while on trial for alleged insider trading and using their influence to buy state land at a fraction of its market price. The two were acquitted of corruption charges in the same case as Mr. Mubarak, but Mr. Abdel-Rahman on Sunday said the court has granted the prosecution's appeal against their not-guilty verdict.
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