Monday, August 15, 2011

Mubarak appears in court on charges of murder and corruption


Represents the deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons Alaa and Gamal on Monday in front of the Cairo Criminal Court for the second time on charges of corruption and ordering the deaths of protesters during the revolution.Mubarak, who had ruled the country for nearly three decades, appeared for the first time in court on a medical bed in the third of this month, which denied all the accusations made against him.
Said Ahmed Mekki, Vice President of Cairo Court of Appeal, the trial will investigate the evidence and call witnesses as requested by the first claim, and then listen to the defense.
The newspaper Al Masry Al Youm Independent Sunday Farid Adib leader of the defense that the former President Mubarak will attend Monday's session.
The trial began Mubarak on the third of August of this presence and the presence of his two sons, Alaa and Gamal accused of corruption.
While the vast majority of Egyptians expect to miss Mubarak for the trial, appeared in the first session in the cage, lying on a bed mobile medical.
Mubarak began at this meeting in good condition stated in a clear voice to questions from Chief Judge Ahmed filed, denying all charges against him.
And published his picture in the dock throughout the world, while the Egyptians regarded the trial was "the triumph of a new revolution."
Mubarak faces the death penalty if it is proved that he had issued orders already fired live bullets at demonstrators and killed.
And fell nearly 850 martyrs, the vast majority of young people, and injured more than six thousand people by the police forces to suppress demonstrations, which lasted 18 days.
During the first session's lawyer asked Mubarak, as well as civil rights lawyers for the plaintiffs, ie, families of the victims, call the President of the Council of the armed forces, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi to testify in the case.
President of the Court did not decide yet whether he will accept this request or not, but a military source confirmed that the Field Marshal Tantawi, will appear in court if it decides to summon.
It also requested the chief defense Mubarak consider his case separately from the issue of former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and his six accused of ordering the killing of demonstrators.
However, the lawyer for the plaintiffs insisted the right of civil cases in the request for annexation of Sunday during a court hearing Adli and his aides dealt with by the court itself.
The families of the victims' lawyers seeking to prove Adli get instructions from Mubarak using bullets against the demonstrators also seek to prove the existence of snipers belonging to the unity of the international fight against terrorism, the protesters targeted the Interior Ministry over the roofs of a number of major buildings in Tahrir Square in the revolution.
The defense insisted that the families of the martyrs Sunday to see the videos recorded by the Egyptian General Intelligence Service of the facts of the uprising in Egypt.
President of the Court and promised Sunday by enabling them to see these tapes.
And Mubarak hold hearings under tight security at the police academy in the suburb of New Cairo east of the Academy of the Egyptian capital was even atheist th February last called "Mubarak Police Academy."

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