Egypt’s Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday will set the date for issuing the verdict in the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six of his aides, who are accused of graft as well as killing protesters during the January 2011 uprising.
More than 850 people were killed in the uprising that forced Mubarak to step down on Feb. 11, 2011. A military council has been ruling the country since then.
Mubarak is the first Arab leader to be put on trial by the people in modern history.
The date of the verdict is expected to be announced by Judge Ahmed Refaat, head of the Cairo Criminal Court, who is the presiding judge in the famous trial, dubbed as “Trial of the Century.”
More than 850 people were killed in the uprising that forced Mubarak to step down on Feb. 11, 2011. A military council has been ruling the country since then.
Mubarak is the first Arab leader to be put on trial by the people in modern history.
The date of the verdict is expected to be announced by Judge Ahmed Refaat, head of the Cairo Criminal Court, who is the presiding judge in the famous trial, dubbed as “Trial of the Century.”
The court on Tuesday refused to consider a lawsuit demanding the referral of Refaat, to a disciplinary board, Egypt’s daily al-Masry al-Youm reported on Wednesday.
The lawsuit was filed by a lawyer named Mostafa Ghoneim, who said Refaat admitted Mubarak to the courtroom lying on a bed with his feet facing the judges and the lawyers, which he considers an insult.
According to the report published by al-Masry al-Youm, Ghoneim also said that Refaat allowed Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to sit alone on the front bench inside the court cage with his assistant behind him as if he still holds his rank, and that he did not separate the case of demonstrators’ deaths from the case of squandering public funds.
The court said it has no jurisdiction to refer judges to disciplinary boards, an issue that is in the hands of the justice minister and not the State Council, which handles disputes between citizens and state institutions.
The court listened Monday to the prosecution’s final case and the civil rights plaintiffs on the arguments raised by the defense in the case.
Attorney General Moustafa Suleiman said that that slander and fabrication, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the defendants’ lawyers in Mubarak’s trial over the last month is against the law and requires legal action, a report carried out by the Daily News of Egypt said.
Suleiman said in his closing remarks that the former president should be given the death penalty, saying he authorized the use of live ammunition and a shoot-to-kill policy against peaceful protesters.
“This is not a case about the killing of one or ten or 20 civilians, but a case of an entire nation,” he told the court, according to the newspaper report.
He explained that there are more than 1,500 witnesses who agreed that the police attacked demonstrators, and that it was impossible for the prosecution to reach the original perpetrators – the police officers – as they were distributed over the squares and in the middle of large crowds.
“We hope that someone’s conscience is awoken and the unknown principal perpetrators are reported, but this doesn’t mean that the defendants will escape punishment,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily News of Egypt.
As for accusing unidentified foreign elements and the security of the American University in Cairo (AUC) of killing protesters, Suleiman said that the investigation did not reach any of these elements, adding that the only role Hamas and Hezbollah played was smuggling their kin after storming Egyptian prisons.
The lawsuit was filed by a lawyer named Mostafa Ghoneim, who said Refaat admitted Mubarak to the courtroom lying on a bed with his feet facing the judges and the lawyers, which he considers an insult.
According to the report published by al-Masry al-Youm, Ghoneim also said that Refaat allowed Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to sit alone on the front bench inside the court cage with his assistant behind him as if he still holds his rank, and that he did not separate the case of demonstrators’ deaths from the case of squandering public funds.
The court said it has no jurisdiction to refer judges to disciplinary boards, an issue that is in the hands of the justice minister and not the State Council, which handles disputes between citizens and state institutions.
The court listened Monday to the prosecution’s final case and the civil rights plaintiffs on the arguments raised by the defense in the case.
Attorney General Moustafa Suleiman said that that slander and fabrication, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the defendants’ lawyers in Mubarak’s trial over the last month is against the law and requires legal action, a report carried out by the Daily News of Egypt said.
Suleiman said in his closing remarks that the former president should be given the death penalty, saying he authorized the use of live ammunition and a shoot-to-kill policy against peaceful protesters.
“This is not a case about the killing of one or ten or 20 civilians, but a case of an entire nation,” he told the court, according to the newspaper report.
He explained that there are more than 1,500 witnesses who agreed that the police attacked demonstrators, and that it was impossible for the prosecution to reach the original perpetrators – the police officers – as they were distributed over the squares and in the middle of large crowds.
“We hope that someone’s conscience is awoken and the unknown principal perpetrators are reported, but this doesn’t mean that the defendants will escape punishment,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily News of Egypt.
As for accusing unidentified foreign elements and the security of the American University in Cairo (AUC) of killing protesters, Suleiman said that the investigation did not reach any of these elements, adding that the only role Hamas and Hezbollah played was smuggling their kin after storming Egyptian prisons.
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