Mubarak's former figures to be distributed

CAIRO - Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Youssef decided on Sunday to distribute Mubarak's former figures who were detained in Tora prison to five different jails, state TV said.

Youssef ordered preparations of the Tora Prison urgently, possibly in order to receive former president Hosni Mubarak, who is now in the International Medical Center in the eastern suburbs of Cairo.

Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, his former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli and others of his former assistants were imprisoned in the Tora Prison.

Recent protests called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which manages the country for the transition period, to move Mubarak's aids into different prisons to avoid further contacts among them that could harm their trial proceedings.

Mubarak and his aides began to stand trial last August. They were accused of ordering to kill protestors and corruption.

A new wave of protests, triggered by a football riot in Port Said which left 74 dead, have hit the capital Cairo and some other cities.  At least 12 people have died in the latest clashes between security forces and protestors.