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 25 years in prison, the maximum amount of jail time in Egypt. Mubarak challenged the ruling, and the courts granted him a retrial. According to Mubarak's defense team, he should be released on April 14 if new charges are not issued against him.
Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah last Sunday ordered that Mubarak stay in detention pending investigations into new charges of squandering public funds. Mubarak's sons Gamal and Alaa will be retried on corruption charges along with him. Business tycoon Hussein Salem is being tried in absentia.
Private Al-Yawm al-Sabi newspaper says new evidence have been found to prove that former Egyptian President and his minister of the interior were involved in killing protesters. Mubarak has suffered several health scares and the state news agency even reported him clinically dead at one point as he slipped into a coma....
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08:37 PM, Apr 12, 2013
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: Facing long jail terms, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's close aides are offering their ill-gotten assets in exchange to be set free. Ex-Housing Minister Ahmed al-Maghrabi and Egyptian tycoon Ahmed Ezz, who is also a prominent member of the former ruling party, have offered their assets, believed to be running into millions of dollars to stay out of jail, the 'Egypt Independent' reported. Ezz has been sentenced to ten...
04:08 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Cairo: The fate of Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak will be decided on June 2, with the Egyptian court conducting his trial setting the final date for verdict after the ousted president turned down a last chance to speak in its final session on Wednesday. The prosecution has called for death penalty for Mubarak, who was Egypt's most powerful man for over 30 years until a mass revolution overturned his...
12:12 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Cairo: The trial of Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak will resume in earnest on Tuesday when judges begin hearing arguments from prosecutors, who say Mubarak and his co-defendants are to blame for the deaths of hundreds of protesters. Lawyers demanded on Monday that the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, be summoned back to the court to give fresh testimony. They also asked for Tantawi's...
08:19 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Cairo: The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in the killing of pro-democracy protesters has been postponed till the end of December over demands that the judges presiding over the case be replaced. The Cairo criminal court, headed by Counsellor Ahmad Refat, decided to postpone till December 28, the case in which Mubarak is accused along with his two sons Ala and Gamal, businessman Hussein Salem, former interior minister...
06:13 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Cairo: An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons standing protectively beside him in white prison uniforms, denied charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters at the start of his historic trial on Wednesday. The spectacle, aired live on state television, was a stunning moment for Egyptians. Many savored the humiliation of the man who...
07:33 PM, Aug 03, 2011
