CAIRO, June 4 (UPI) -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ordered Thursday by an Egyptian appeals court to stand trial for a third time in connection with the deaths of protesters.
Mubarak, 87, was previously convicted, sentenced to life imprisonment and jailed for failing to halt security forces as they killed over 800 people protesting his regime, but he was acquitted in a November 2014 retrial. Egypt's Court of Cassation, its highest appeals court, gave approval Thursday to try the case again, beginning Nov. 5.