Cairo: Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will stay in detention despite a judge ordering his release on bail pending a retrial over charges in complicity in the murder of protesters because he still faces other charges, court officials said on Monday. Mubarak, 84, has spent the maximum legal time of two years in detention since being charged with former interior minister Habib al-Adli for their involvement in the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that unseated him.
Mubarak's case is facing an indefinite delay after a retrial was aborted on Saturday when the presiding judge withdrew from the case. Mubarak and Adli were sentenced to life terms at their first trial in June but the highest appeal court ordered a retrial after accepting appeals from the defence and prosecution.
On Monday, a judge ordered Mubarak's release on bail for charges over his complicity in killing of protesters but this decision did not cancel his detention due to ongoing separate charges, the officials said. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for almost 30 years before being toppled by 18 days of unrest, is also facing an investigation over financial corruption charges, Egyptian media has reported.
He has been staying in a military hospital from where he was flown by helicopter to the court on Saturday. The prosecutor general's office on Saturday ordered an urgent medical report on the former president to determine whether he was now fit enough to be sent to prison where he had stayed before....
08:08 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Cairo: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's retrial for the killing of nearly 900 protesters during the revolution that ended his dictatorial regime is set to begin on Saturday in the deeply polarised country. 84-year-old Mubarak, his interior minister Habib al-Adly and six security chiefs will face trial for the killing of protesters during the January 25 revolution. His earlier trial ended in early June 2012, where Mubarak was sentenced to...
08:37 PM, Apr 12, 2013
A panel of judges on Wednesday recommended the dissolution of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which President Mohammed Morsi hails, arguing it has no legal status. ...
06:18 AM, Mar 21, 2013
An Egyptian court on Wednesday overturned President Muhammed Mursi's decree that had called for parliamentary elections from April 22, questioning its constitutionality, a ruling that may deepen the political crisis in the polarised country. ...
04:26 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Egypt government has issued an apology after visuals of police beating up a naked man were shown in a video. The visuals show the riot police beating a man and dragging him towards an armoured vehicle. ...
10:15 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Cairo: An Egyptian court on Tuesday overturned a government decree allowing the army to arrest civilians, a setback for military rulers preparing to hand power to an elected president. The army-backed interim government issued the decree days before a tense presidential run-off vote on June 16-17 to give soldiers the power to detain people during street disturbances. But rights groups and politicians challenged the decision, accusing the military of reviving...
02:57 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for his role in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution that forced him from power, a verdict that caps a stunning fall from grace for a man who ruled the country as his personal fiefdom for nearly three decades. The harsh sentence against the 84-year-old former leader appeared aimed at defusing tensions ahead of a...
01:59 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Cairo: An Egyptian court may announce its verdict on Saturday in the landmark trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, 15 months after a popular mass uprising forced him out of power. Mubarak, 84, along with former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six others could face the gallows if convicted of ordering the deaths of some of the estimated 850 people. The case also includes the president's sons Alaa and Gamal....
09:09 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Cairo: Egyptian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for former President Hosni Mubarak and other defendants including the former interior minister for their role in the killing of protesters in the uprising that swept him from power. Many Egyptians hope the trial will heal some of the scars of Mubarak's autocratic rule and help the country find stability after nearly a year of political turmoil under the military generals who...
09:45 AM, Jan 06, 2012
Cairo: The prosecutor in the Hosni Mubarak trial has demanded the death penalty for the ousted Egyptian leader on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising against his rule. Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member prosecution team, also asked the judge in Thursday's hearing for the death sentence for Mubarak's security chief and six top police commanders being tried in the same case. Mubarak and...
07:08 PM, Jan 05, 2012
Cairo: Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, ousted in a popular revolt, on Tuesday faced prosecutors who would grill him on charges of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters, abuse of office and corruption. The prosecution is set to present its arguments in this session that is expected to last over three days. The ailing former president Mubarak, 83, was wheeled in the courtroom on a stretcher and his sons Gamal...
06:04 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Cairo: Toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters, appeared in court again today accompanied by his sons, before the high-profile trial was adjourned till Tuesday. An ailing Mubarak was wheeled in the courtroom on a stretcher and his sons Gamal and Alaa, also facing charges, were present beside him, Al Arabiya reported. Mubarak, his sons, Egypt's former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six top...
05:17 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Cairo: The trial of Hosni Mubarak will resume this week, where the ousted Egyptian president, his two sons and eight others will face a slew of charges related to corruption, ordering the killing of pro-democracy protesters during a popular uprising that toppled his regime in February. Amid tight security, Cairo Criminal Court under presiding Judge Ahmed Refaat will resume the trial on Wednesday, MENA reported on Monday. The trial will...
04:07 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Cairo: Protesters demanding an end to army rule clashed with police firing tear gas near Egypt's parliament building on Saturday in a flare-up that cast another shadow over a parliamentary election billed as the nation's first free vote in decades. Protesters said one man, Ahmed Sayed, 21, died after being hit by a state security vehicle. His death was the first since a truce between police and demonstrators on Thursday...
07:04 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Paris: A French TV journalist said on Friday she was punched and roughed up, then sexually assaulted while covering protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square, the second attack reported in a single day on women journalists working there. Caroline Sinz told France 3 television, her employer, that she and her cameraman were set upon by young men in the square then separated on Thursday. She said she was punched, then "subjected...
12:06 AM, Nov 26, 2011
Washington: As thousands of people continue to protest in Cairo against its military's intentions to retain power even after the parliamentary polls on Monday, the White House in a strong statement on Friday said the Egyptian government must be immediately empowered with real authority. "The United States strongly believes that the new Egyptian government must be empowered with real authority immediately," the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said in...
07:31 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Cairo: Thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to military rule converged on Cairo's Tahrir square on Friday in what activists say will be the biggest day yet of protests in a week of violence that has seen at least 41 people killed. The generals who have governed Egypt since people power toppled President Hosni Mubarak on February 11 are facing a major challenge to their authority. Activists who accuse them...
05:42 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian former prime minister Kamal Ganzouri accepted a request from the ruling generals to form a new government, state media reported, but protesters brushed away their choice and vowed to hold another mass rally on Friday to demand the army quit power. Ganzouri confirmed he had agreed in principle to lead a national salvation government after meeting with the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein...
03:16 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Cairo: A prominent Egyptian-born US columnist said uniformed police sexually assaulted, beat and blindfolded her after she was detained on Thursday near Tahrir Square during clashes, leaving her left arm and right hand broken and in casts. Mona Eltahawy, 44, lives in New York and is a prominent women's rights defender, a lecturer on the role of social media in the Arab world and a former Reuters journalist. Eltahawy describes...
01:28 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's ruling military council asked former Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri to form a new government on Thursday after protesters demanded the army sack the previous cabinet, Al Jazeera television reported, citing unspecified reports. Ganzouri headed a cabinet from 1996 to 1999 that introduced some economic liberalization measures. Many Egyptians viewed him as an official who was not tainted by corruption, but his record serving under Mubarak could stir opposition...
01:03 AM, Nov 25, 2011
