CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, on trial for conspiring to kill protesters, was wheeled into a courtroom cage in a hospital bed on Wednesday -- an image that sends a chilling message to other Arab autocrats facing popular uprisings.
Judge Ahmed Refaat called for quiet when he entered the court to start the trial at Cairo's police academy. Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, also on trial, were dressed in the white outfits of defendants.
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