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
Egyptian protesters scuffled with police in Cairo on January 26 and troops were deployed in Suez after nine people were shot dead in nationwide protests against President Mohamed Mursi, exposing deep rifts two years after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 26, 2013
Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved a drafted by President Mohamed Mursi's allies, results announced on December 26 showed, proving that liberals, leftists and Christians have been powerless to halt the march of Islamists in power. ...
12:55 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Masked gunmen attacked opposition protesters camped out at Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday, firing birdshot at them and wounding nine people, security officials said. The attack stoked tensions just hours ahead of rival mass rallies in the Egyptian capital by supporters and opponents of the country's Islamist president over a disputed draft constitution. ...
07:20 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Protests by Islamists allied to President Mohamed Mursi forced Egypt's highest court to adjourn its work indefinitely on Sunday, intensifying a conflict between some of the country's top judges and the head of state. ...
05:02 AM, Dec 03, 2012
The assembly writing Egypt's constitution said it could wrap up a final draft later on Wednesday, a move the Muslim Brotherhood sees as a way out of a crisis over a decree by President Mohamed Mursi that protesters say gives him dictatorial powers. ...
02:45 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Protestors stormed the headquarters of President Mohamed Morsi's party - the Muslim Brotherhood - in Alexandria, after he assumed new powers that go beyond even those of toppled president Hosni Mubarak. ...
02:37 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Cairo: Clashes between supporters of Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood and Opposition parties on Friday erupted in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square for the first time since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi took office, leaving hundreds injured. The clashes erupted after supporters of Morsi tore down a stage belonging to leftist politician and ex-presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi's Popular Current. The supporters of Sabbahi were chanting anti-Morsi slogans. Tensions are also high after the...
08:35 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's first Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, was sworn in on Saturday, propelling his Muslim Brotherhood into power after 84 years of struggle, although the military remains determined to call the shots. Immediately after swearing his oath, he said a civil, national, constitutional and modern state was "born today". The bearded US-trained engineer is Egypt's first non-military president since army officers toppled the king in 1952. For the Brotherhood, banned...
08:13 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Cairo: Islamist Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected President whose powers have been curbed by the military, toured his palatial new residence - where ousted leader Hosni Mubarak once lived - and began work on Monday to form a coalition government. Declared winner on Sunday, a week after a nail-biting run-off vote that pitted him against an ex-military officer, the Islamist faces the challenge of meeting sky-high expectations in a...
08:08 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Cairo: The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt's first free presidential election on Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader "for all Egyptians," although he faces a struggle for power with the country's still-dominant military rulers. The announcement by election officials touched off a joyous celebration of chanting and dancing in the sweltering heat by tens of thousands of Morsi's supporters jamming Tahrir Square, the birthplace...
05:17 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Cairo: Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi on Sunday won the historic post-Mubarak presidential polls in Egypt, beating his rival and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik to become the country's first freely elected President. Supreme Presidential Elections Commission head Farouq Sultan announced that Morsi had won the presidential run-off. Morsi, 60, won 51.73 per cent of the vote, beating his rival Shafik, the Higher Presidential Election Commission said. Morsi won 13,230,131 votes...
08:20 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Cairo: Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered a brain stroke and was shifted from Yura prison to a military Hospital in southern Cairo, with some media reports claiming he is "clinically dead". The 84-year-old former president, who is serving a life sentence, was in a "critical" condition and transferred to Maadi Hospital late on Tuesday night after he was defibrillated in the prison hospital, state-run new agency MENA reported. The...
11:19 AM, Jun 20, 2012
Cairo: The United States expressed alarm that its proteges in the Egyptian Army were abusing hopes for democracy by ordering more military rule just as the Muslim Brotherhood was claiming victory in the country's first free presidential election. The Islamists' self-assurance was contested by the other candidate in the run-off race, a former general who was prime minister when Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year by an Army anxious to...
03:41 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Cairo: A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment on Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo's Tahrir Square. From the ferocity of the assault, some of the victims said it appeared to have been an organized attempt to drive women out of demonstrations and trample on the pro-democracy...
03:59 PM, Jun 09, 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: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square, demanding that Egypt's ruling military council hand over power to civilians. Rival political parties of Islamists and liberal youth groups joined ranks despite months of bitter disputes and accusations. Protesters chanted, "down with military rule." Islamists captured nearly 70 per cent of parliament seats in last year's elections. They have stayed away from most street protests, hoping for accommodation...
05:56 PM, Apr 20, 2012
In January 2011 we saw images of hope and the rise of people power in Egypt's Tahrir Square. The crowds pushed President Mubarak out then, but a year later the protestors are still there. Has the promise of the Arab Spring faded? ...
10:30 PM, Feb 04, 2012
