Mubarak trial postponed to 2 January 2012

Mubarak trial postponed to 2 January 2012 Cairo – Akram Ali The trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak with his two sons, and the ‎former interior minister Habib El-Adli and six aides, was ‎postponed to Monday 2 January 2012.‎ The court, which was headed by Judge Ahmed Refaat asked the public prosecutor to hand the final reports about the victims of January 25 revolution.
The defendants were all present in the courtroom, during which El-Adli’s lawyers filed a request for documents ‎on recent incidents of violence in which police forces and ‎military personnel were involved.‎
At the end of the session, clashes occoured between the head of the volunteer defense team from Kuwait, Yousry Abdel Razek, to defend Mubarak and a number of plaintiffs' civil rights.
Previously, the head of the Lawyers' Syndicate, Sameh Ashour announced that the Lawyers' Syndicate decided to form a supreme committee to defend the martyrs’ families and the wounded during the January 25 revolution.
Ashour who attended as the head of this committee said earlier that this session would be only “procedural”, explaining that the head of the court will determine the witnesses’ names to be called for the next session.
It is noted that the ousted Egyptian president arrived Wednesday morning at the Police Academy to face another session of his ongoing murder and corruption trial, after three months of postponing.
The helicopter carrying the ailing president landed at the academy at 10 am, after which an ambulance surrounded by armored vehicles drove Mubarak to the courtroom, while the other defendants, including his two sons (Alaa and Gamal) and former Interior Minister Habib El-Adly were brought in from Tora Prison.
Martyrs' families gathered outside the Police Academy headquarters, some carrying signs demanding Mubarak's execution, while a small number of Mubarak supporters began appearing on the premises as well. The families called for faster prosecution of those accused of killing demonstrators as well as the removal of Adly-era officials from the Interior Ministry.