CAIRO (AP) — The trial of Hosni Mubarak resumed Wednesday after a 3-month break, with the ousted Egyptian leader returning to the metal defendants' cage in a Cairo courtroom.
Egyptian state television showed the 83-year-old Mubarak covered by a green blanket and lying on a hospital gurney when he was brought from a helicopter and taken to an ambulance for the short ride to the courthouse. He remained on the gurney throughout the hearing and spoke only once to say "present" when Judge Ahmed Rifaat called out his name at the start of the session.
Mubarak is charged with complicity in the killing of more than 800 protesters in the crackdown on a popular uprising in January and …
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