Egypt's Mubarak faces new trial from April 13
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March 4, 2013, Monday
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EGYPT'S ousted President Hosni Mubarak will face a new trial starting April 13 on charges linked to the killings of protesters during the uprising against him, a court ruled yesterday.
Mubarak and his former interior minister got life in jail in June for failing to prevent the killing of protesters during the 18-day revolution in 2011 that ended his 29-year rule. In January, an appeals court overturned the sentences and ordered a retrial.
Mubarak, 84, has been in detention since April 2011 and is being held in a military hospital. It's unlikely that he will be freed before his retrial.
The ruling ordering a retrial raised public anger over what was seen as a shoddy prosecution case. Critics believed Mubarak should have been convicted for directly ordering the deadly crackdown and sentenced to death.
The issue of the revolution's dead is a sensitive one in Egypt, with the families of the victims demanding retribution and compensation. Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi, vowed in his poll campaign he would order retrials for former regime officials if new evidence was discovered.
A retrial could help resolve unanswered questions over who ordered the crackdown and who executed it. Most of the security officials on separate trials for the killings of protesters were acquitted.
Yesterday, a judge said the retrial before a criminal court will also include six other senior security aides who were acquitted in the first trial.
Mubarak and his former interior minister got life in jail in June for failing to prevent the killing of protesters during the 18-day revolution in 2011 that ended his 29-year rule. In January, an appeals court overturned the sentences and ordered a retrial.
Mubarak, 84, has been in detention since April 2011 and is being held in a military hospital. It's unlikely that he will be freed before his retrial.
The ruling ordering a retrial raised public anger over what was seen as a shoddy prosecution case. Critics believed Mubarak should have been convicted for directly ordering the deadly crackdown and sentenced to death.
The issue of the revolution's dead is a sensitive one in Egypt, with the families of the victims demanding retribution and compensation. Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi, vowed in his poll campaign he would order retrials for former regime officials if new evidence was discovered.
A retrial could help resolve unanswered questions over who ordered the crackdown and who executed it. Most of the security officials on separate trials for the killings of protesters were acquitted.
Yesterday, a judge said the retrial before a criminal court will also include six other senior security aides who were acquitted in the first trial.
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