Cairo, July 28 — Egypt’s health minister says ousted President Hosni Mubarak is healthy enough to be moved from a Sinai hospital to Cairo for his trial on charges of corruption and ordering the killings of protesters.
The minister, Amr Hilmy, has told reporters that a hall at Cairo’s Conference Center is being prepared for the trial. But he says an appeals court still must make a final decision on the venue.
He says “Mubarak’s health is in an appropriate condition to be tried in Cairo.”
Mubarak is set to stand trial on Aug. 3. He has been under arrest at a hospital in the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since soon after his Feb. 11 fall. Recent reports of failing health had raised the possibility of a delay or the holding of the court in Sharm el-Sheikh.
–Agencies