Covered in a blanket and wheeled in on a gurney, deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak returned to the courtroom Wednesday in a murder-and-corruption trial that has at once thrilled and frustrated a nation attempting to move beyond his three-decade rule.
The trial resumed after a three-month break as a hospitalized Mubarak was flown by helicopter to a hearing room at the police academy on the outskirts of Cairo. He is charged with complicity in the deaths of more than 800 protesters and financial crimes involving real estate deals and natural-gas contracts with Israel.
Wednesday’s proceedings mainly dealt with technicalities and a request that Sami Anan, the chief of staff for the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, be called to testify.
