Mubarak Trial Live Blog

After stepping down in the face of a massive uprising against his rule, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak becomes one of the few Arab leaders in recent history to be put on trial by his own people.

Read the charges against Mubarak and others.

Read a partial list of high-profile witnesses whom lawyers want to call.

Analysis: "Mubarak trial seen as symbolic test"

Day One: "Mubarak's chaotic day in court"

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Egyptian judge will deliver verdict in Hosni Mubarak trial on June 2. [Reuters]

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Hosni Mubarak's security chief on Wednesday blamed foreigners for the killing of protesters in the uprising that unseated the Egyptian president, in the final day of the ousted leader's murder trial.

Mubarak's former security chief said that "foreigners" had killed the protesters, and that they had climbed on the rooftops of buildings and shot them.

He blamed Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas for sending infiltrators, and said the plot against Egypt was continuing to this day.

Adly defended himself and the police against the charge of murder, drawing applause from some police officers standing at the back of the courtroom.

Judge Ahmed Refaat is expected to announce the date of the verdict later Wednesday. [AFP]

The chief prosecutor in the trial of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak said Monday in his closing remarks that the former president should be given the death penalty for the killings of protesters in last year's uprising.

Mustafa Suleiman said Mubarak, who ruled over the Arab world's most populous country for nearly 30 years, clearly authorized use of live ammunition and a shoot-to-kill policy against peaceful protesters.

According to government estimates, around 850 were killed in the crackdown from January. 25 to Feburary. 11, 2011.

For this, Suleiman told the presiding judges, Mubarak and five co-defendants, including his longtime Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and four former top security officers, should receive the maximum sentence.

"This is not a case about the killing of one or ten or 20 civilians, but a case of an entire nation," he said. [AP]

Latest update from our producer at the Mubarak trial: 

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Al Jazeera's Adam Makary tweets from Cairo, where the judge has just adjourned former President Hosni Mubarak's trial. His fellow producer, Nadia Abou el-Magd has futher details below:

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Our producer at Mubarak's trial just sent this update:

 

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Our producer Nadia Abou el-Magd is entering the courtoom for Mubarak's trial now:

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