Protesters try to storm Mubarak courtroom

RELATIVES of protesters killed during Egypt’s uprising fought with police and tried to force their way into a Cairo court yesterday for the latest session in the trial of overthrown president Hosni Mubarak.

Live television broadcasts of the landmark trial have been halted by a judge’s order, and family members massed outside the courtroom were angered they could not witness the prosecution of the former leader charged with complicity in their loved ones’ deaths.

In court, proceedings took a key turn, with the first witnesses taking the stand after the procedural issues that have dominated the trial so far.