The retrial of Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak after he appealed against a life sentence began on Saturday in Cairo and was immediately adjourned as the judge recused himself amid chaotic scenes

The retrial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak after he appealed against a life sentence began on Saturday in Cairo and was immediately adjourned as the judge recused himself amid chaotic scenes.
  
Mostafa Hassan Abdallah recused himself after a hearing that lasted just seconds, sending the case back to the Court of Appeal which will then refer it to a new court. As the judge filed out of the courtroom, there was uproar with people shouting and waving their arms.
  
Civil society lawyers attending the trial chanted: "The people want the execution of the president."
  
Last October, the very same judge had acquitted the defendants in the infamous "Battle of the Camels" trial, who were accused of sending men on camels and horses to break up a protest during the 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak.
  
Earlier on Saturday, television footage showed Mubarak, dressed in white and wearing sunglasses, wheeled out of an ambulance on a stretcher and taken into the capital's Police Academy in a suburb of the capital for the hearing.
  
Mubarak was flown to the academy that was once named after him by helicopter from the Cairo military hospital where he is being treated, the official MENA news agency said.