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 Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is expected to appear inside an iron cage today, international media outlets reported.

“San Francisco Chronicle” writes the judges who got their jobs during Mubarak's reign will preside. Egypt's top prosecutor, appointed by Mubarak, will submit the charges against him. As the proceedings are broadcast live, millions in the country he ruled for three decades will be riveted.

"It's a decisive moment in the history of the Egyptian people to see this ousted president behind the prosecution cage after seeing him portrayed as a divine figure on television for decades," said Mahmoud el-Khodairy, a former judge who is a critic of Mubarak.

Mubarak is accused of graft and of ordering the killing of nearly 900 demonstrators who took to the streets during the 18-day uprising that ended when the country's powerful military chiefs forced him to step aside.