2:50 pm: The trial is in recess. 2:14 pm: General Mursi says that recorded conversations between police officers indicate that weapons were only used at the Interior Ministry. 2:07 pm: Weapons and ammunition were transferred in ambulances to the Interior Ministry headquarters, police stations and prisons, General Mursi said, according to state TV. 2:05 pm: General Mursi ruled out the possibility that security forces used machine guns against protesters during the revolution, state TV reports. 1:46 pm: After resuming the session, Judge Refaat ordered the expulsion of the lawyer who held up Mubarak's photo in the courtroom. 1:41 pm: The atmosphere outside the Police Academy is getting tense after verbal clashes erupted between anti-Mubarak protesters and police officers guarding the academy. A woman in her 40s was insulted and chased by Central Security Forces, Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent reports. 1:37 pm: General Mursi says that Central Security Forces received orders to use tear gas against protesters on the night of 25 January. 1:33 pm: Police pulled one anti-Mubarak protester into the cordon surrounding the Police Academy, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent, who added that a group of Mubarak's supporters are being protected by the police away from anti-Mubarak protesters. 1:16 pm: Judge Refaat resumes the session, state TV reports, calling the first witness - General Hussein Saeed Mohamed Mursi, head of communications for Central Security Forces - to the stand. 1:08 pm: Plaintiffs' lawyers are chanting anti-Mubarak slogans, state TV reports. 1:05 pm: State TV reports that Judge Refaat has ordered that three of the witnesses - who were in the Interior Ministry operations room during the revolution - be put in a separate room, away from the influence of the lawyers. 12:55 pm: The Health Ministry has said that nine people were injured in clashes between Mubarak's supporters and anti-Mubarak protesters. The ministry has said that it treated five people injured at the Police Academy and that it transferred four to New Cairo Hospital. 12:50 pm: Al-Masry Al-Youm learned that the 10 Kuwaiti lawyers who came to Egypt to join Mubarak's defense team were not allowed into the court when the trial began earlier this morning. State TV confirmed that some of the plaintiff lawyers burned a photo of Mubarak inside the courtroom, after one of Mubarak's lawyers held up a photo of the former president. 12:46 pm: Sameh Ashour, an ex-head of the Lawyers' Syndicate and a member of the group of lawyers representing the martyrs' families, told state TV that they will request that the judge summon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the court to testify about the details of the gas deal between Egypt and Israel. 12:40 pm: Police ordered an ambulance to transfer a group of remaining Mubarak supporters away from the Police Academy, fearing that clashes might erupt again between them and anti-Mubarak protesters. 12:30 pm: Human rights activist Gamal Eid wrote on his Twitter account that a big fight erupted inside the courtroom between lawyers of the defendants and lawyers of the martyrs' families. State TV has said the clashes started because a lawyer raised a photo of Mubarak. Judge Refaat didn't oppose people raising pro-Mubarak banners inside the courtroom. 12:20 pm: Scores of anti-Mubarak protesters continue chanting slogans such as "execute the murderer," and "Oh Mushier [Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi], the blood of the martyrs will not go without punishment." They also called on people to participate in the million-man march planned to take place in Tahrir Square on 9 September. 12:15 pm: Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent reports that security forces have arrested at least four anti-Mubarak protesters outside the Police Academy. 12:02 pm: Judge Ahmed Refaat calls for a recess after clashes erupted inside the courtroom between Mubarak's defense team and lawyers of the martyrs' families. The defendants leave the dock. 11:55 am: According to Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent, clashes erupted again between Mubarak's supporters and families of protesters killed in the revolution. No injuries were reported. The correspondent has said also that many of Mubarak's supporters have left the Police Academy. 11:53 am: The lawyer of Ahmed Ramzy, former assistant minister for the Central Security Forces, demands to see records of the number of the Central Security Forces deployed and the weapons they were provided with from 24 to 28 January, state TV reports. 11:52 am: The state-run news agency MENA has quoted a source at the Health Ministry as saying that the ministry has allocated 15 ambulances and two moveable clinics to be on alert outside the Police Academy. 11:50 am: State TV reports that the lawyers of Adly and his aides demand to see the minutes of ministerial meetings that took place between 20 January and 22 January. Lawyers say the meetings were attended by Hussein Tantawi, then defense minister, as well as former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, and Adly. Lawyers allege that during the meetings, the officials discussed the security plan to deal with the planned protests. 11:40 am: State TV says Mubarak's lawyer has demanded to see records of all government-owned land that was allocated in the past decade to people other than Mubarak confidant and business tycoon Hussein Salem, who is being tried in the same session in absentia. 11:30 am: The defendants' lawyers have said they received the medical records of those injured and killed during the revolution, state TV reports. 11:23 am: State TV reports that the trial has started. 11:10 am: Images from state TV show an ambulance carrying Mubarak stopping outside the courtroom, guarded by masked and gunned army officers. Mubarak entered a room in the academy, and a hospital bed was brought outside the room. However, Mubarak himself wasn't seen. 11:00 am: State TV has reported that the session hasn't started yet. It also said that a few minutes ago, a plane carrying Mubarak arrived at the Police Academy from the International Medical Center, where the former president is being hospitalized. State TV has also reported that former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and his aides, along with Mubarak's sons, arrived at the Police Academy earlier in the morning. 10:50 am: State TV has reported that police arrested a number of people who are “causing disorder” outside the courtroom. 10:00 am: Eyewitnesses have said that scores of people were injured in clashes that erupted this morning between Mubarak's supporters and families of protesters killed in the revolution. Dozens of ambulances have carried the injured to nearby hospitals. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm's correspondent at the Police Academy, Central Security Forces (CSF) violently dispersed families of protesters killed in the revolution, chasing them away from the academy. Police also chased away those injured who tried to speak with journalists and reporters. 9:12 am: Supporters of the 83-year-old Mubarak and the families of protesters killed in the revolution have gathered outside the heavily fortified police academy where the courtroom has been set up. The two sides scuffled and hurled stones at each other. Eyewitnesses said at least four members of the martyrs' families were injured after police forces tried to prevent them from accessing the police academy without permits. 8:00 am: Ousted President Hosni Mubarak is returning to court for a third hearing in his trial on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of more than 860 protesters during the 18-day-revolution that toppled him. Four policemen will take the stand to testify against Mubarak and his top security officials. Egyptians will no longer be able to watch the proceedings live because the judge banned cameras at the end of the last session on 15 August. Mubarak's sons are also to appear at Monday's session. They are charged with corruption.
