Crowds fight with police at Mubarak trial
Tuesday 06 September 2011
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Relatives of protesters killed during Egypt's uprising scuffled with police and tried to force their way into a Cairo courtroom yesterday, demanding to be allowed to attend the latest session in the trial of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
Live TV broadcasts of the landmark trial have been halted by judges' order and family members massed outside the court were angered they could not witness the prosecution of the former leader charged with complicity in their loved ones' deaths.
Yesterday the first witnesses took the stand. A senior police official was expected to talk of orders to shoot protesters during the 18-day uprising that brought Mr Mubarak's downfall on 11 February.
The 83-year-old former president, who claims to be in ill health, was shown on state TV being wheeled from a helicopter at the Police Academy where the court has been set up. In the courtroom, he lay in a hospital bed in the defendants' cage along with his co-defendants, including his two sons. AP
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