Prosecutors tasked with investigating the killing and injuring of protesters during Egypt's revolution have provided the court retrying former president Hosni Mubarak with 700 pages of new evidence and testimonies, prosecution spokesperson Mahmoud El-Hefnawi said on Saturday.
Mubarak, who received a life sentence last June for failing to protect peaceful protesters during the revolution, was granted a retrial in January due to procedural irregularities in the initial trial.
On Saturday, Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah, presiding over the retrial, recused himself from the case and referred it to the Cairo Appeal Court.
Facing retrial along with Mubarak for their role in the murder of protesters during the 2011 uprising are former interior minister Habib El-Adly and six of his aides.
El-Hefnawi told Al-Ahram's Arabic news website that the dossier of new evidence drafted by the "revolution’s safeguard prosecution" contains around 700 pages.
Last November, President Morsi issued a constitutional declaration which included orders to reopen investigations into charges of murder, attempted murder and wounding of protesters, as well as crimes of terror committed against revolutionaries, by anyone who held a political or executive position under the former regime.
The new dossier includes the confirmation of evidence already looked into by the Cairo Criminal Court.
"The accusations against the defendants have been supported with clear evidence," added El-Hefnawi.
