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In this image taken from Egyptian State television, Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak lies on a stretcher as he listens to the opening proceedings in a holding cell in the court room in the police academy on the outskirt of the capital Cairo where he faces murder charges, the first Arab ruler to appear in court in person in a historic moment for a region whose leaders are rarely held to account. On August 15, 2011, Mubarak returned to a Cairo court on a stretcher for the next session of his trial.