Highest Egyptian appeals court demands Mubarak retrial over protesters' deaths

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.

Mubarak currently resides in a Cairo military hospital. He led Egypt for three decades before resigning in February 2011 after mass protests convulsed Egypt. He has also faced charges of graft and corruption, and his time already in custody satisfied the penalty of his three-year conviction, earlier this year, for embezzlement.

His successor and Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, was deposed, jailed and now faces a number of criminal charges, as well as a death sentence already handed down.