Egyptian Criminal Court resumes Mubarak’s trial

Mubarak on a stretcher to resume trial Cairo – Akram Ali Criminal Court of North Cairo resumes the trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, and his former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli, at the Police Academy, Monday, headed by Judge Ahmed Refaat, on charges of killing demonstrators and wasting public money. Military aircraft transferring Mubarak arrived at the Police Academy, as his two sons Gamal and Alaa, Habib el-Adli, and his aides arrived from Tora Prison, to start the 18th session of the trial.
Civil rights plaintiffs representing families of martyrs in the trial are preparing for their first plea argument, lasting for two days, which is to be followed by defense attorneys who represent Mubarak and the rest of the suspects.
The session will start by hearing the plea of the Litigation Authority, which will require financial compensation for the acts of sabotage and burning intentionally caused by the defendants, leading to the dominance of lawlessness and the storming of jails by criminal elements.
Plaintiffs held a closed meeting at the lawyers’ syndicate, attended by Sameh Ashour, Mohamed Tosson, and Mohamed Damati, where attorneys assigned to the case made several proposals of the criteria upon which the lawyers to present the plea are to be selected, as well as their arrangements and plans for the argument.
The prosecution, in his closing argument which lasted three days, had called for the execution of the former President along with 7 other suspects, top of which is former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli, for killing peaceful demonstrators in the first 18 days of the revolution, before Mubarak was forced step down.
The prosecution stressed in its appeal that Mubarak, being the president of the republic during the outbreak of the demonstrations, was in charge, with accordance to the constitution and the law, had full authority, and was reported by all incidents, thus he stated he must have been aware of the targeting and killing of protesters.
Mubarak, as well as all suspects, had previously denied all charged.
In addition to Mubarak and el-Adli, the prosecutor called for the execution of four other suspects; former head of Cairo Security, Isamil Shaer, former head of the Central Security Forces Ahmed Ramzi, head of the “dissolved” State Security, Hassan Abdel Rahman, and head of Public Security Adli Fayed.
He also called for “the most severe sentences”  to be executed on former head of Giza Security, Osama Marasi, and former head of October 6 Security Omar Faramawi, for being responsible for the state of security chaos, which resulted in the attacks on the Police Stations during the revolution.