Ruling in Mubarak retrial adjourned till November 29

A court in Egypt Saturday adjourned until Nov 29 the ruling in the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, who is facing charges of giving orders to kill peaceful protesters during the 2011 uprising against him, MENA news agency reported.

Earlier, Mubarak supporters and opponents gathered outside the Cairo Criminal Court where the retrial was being held. Families of the 2011 victims held pictures of relatives they lost while Mubarak supporters chanted slogans questioning if Egypt really became better following Mubarak's ouster.

Mubarak, 86, is being retried on charges of complicity in the killing of around 850 unarmed protesters during the Jan 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.

His sons Gamal and Alaa, Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly, and six of El-Adly's aides are also charged in the same case.

Hussein Salem, an Egyptian magnate, is the only runaway defendant in the case.

The former autocrat was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 2012 for complicity in protesters' deaths, but the verdict was successfully appealed in Jan 2013 as the presiding judge said there was not enough evidence presented by the prosecution.

Mubarak's retrial began in April 2013.