Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, currently serving a life term in prison, will receive a retrial. Al Jazeera reports that this opportunity may give the dictator, who was found guilty last year in the deaths of protestors in 2011, a chance at a verdict of not guilty.
No date has been set for the start of their retrial.
Mubarak and Habib el-Adly, the former interior minister, were sentenced to life in prison in June last year in a court ruling that held them responsible for the deaths of protesters killed by security forces trying to put down the uprising. Â Â Â
Crowds of Mubarak supporters attending the trial cheered.
The 84-year-old former leader was moved from prison to a military hospital in late December after breaking ribs in a fall.
Mina Khalil, a law professor at the University of Cairo, told Al Jazeera "any sentence they get can't be harsher than what they got and it is possible they can get a verdict of innocence.
"It will be a question of fact-finding based on evidence provided in the first trial. The charges will remain the same."
Read more at Al Jazeera.