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By Alexander Dziadosz and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Former president Hosni Mubarak was back in court on Saturday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the difficulty of transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt. Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib el-Adli, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison last June for failing to stop the killing during the 2011 uprising that swept him from power. The retrial was ordered after a court in January accepted appeals from the prosecution and the defense. ...More...