The trial of Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak, along with former interior minister Habib El-Adly and six aides, was postponed on Wednesday to 2 January 2012.
Mubarak and his men face charges of ordering the killing of unarmed protesters during Egypt’s January uprising leaving 846 protesters killed and around 11,000 injured, as well as a host of corruption allegations.
The defendants were all present in the courtroom for Wednesday's session, during which lawyers for the families of slain protesters insisted on summoning Army Chief-of-Staff Sami Anan – who is also deputy head of Egypt’s ruling military council – as a witness.
Lawyers for El-Adly, for their part, filed a request for documents on recent incidents of violence in which police forces and military personnel were involved.
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