Mubarak trial continues

Egyptian demonstrators scuffled with police outside the court where the third session of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak resumed on Monday. Mubarak,in hospital since April with heart problems and other ailments, was wheeled on a gurney into a metal defendants' cage in the court, at the Cairo Police Academy. He has been accused of ordering the killing of anti-government protesters when anti-regime demonstrations erupted in Cairo in February. Judge Ahmed Refaat has banned live television coverage of the trial after the first two sessions. At Monday's hearing senior policemen were due to deliver testimonies. Mubarak is the first Arab leader to stand trial in person since popular uprisings swept the Middle East this year. Ten Kuwaiti lawyers said they were joining Mubarak's defense team, saying they were making a gesture of gratitude to Mubarak for his support for a U.S.-led coalition that expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991.