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| Trial of Hosni Mubarak resumes in Egypt |
| Cairo, 02.01.2012 |
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| The trial of the former Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, has resumed after a delay of almost two months.
State TV showed the 83-year-old being stretchered into the court, at the police academy in the capital, Cairo.
Mr Mubarak is accused of corruption, and of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising which forced him to step down last February.
His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, the former interior minister and six senior police officers are also in the dock.
All the defendants have denied the charges against them.
Police deployed
State TV carried live footage of Mr Mubarak's arrival at the court on Wednesday. Wearing a black tracksuit and covered with a blanket, he was taken on a stretcher from an ambulance to a waiting room.
He was earlier flown to the police academy by helicopter from a Cairo military hospital, where he has received treatment for a heart condition.
Proceedings were delayed because lawyers representing the families of the nearly 840 protesters killed during the 18-day uprising demanded that the presiding judge, Ahmed Refaat, and two other judges be replaced.
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The charges
Hosni Mubarak: Conspiring in killing of protesters (15 years in prison or death penalty); abusing power to amass wealth (5-15 years)
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak: abusing power to amass wealth (5-15 years)
Former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six aides: conspiring in killing of protesters (15 years or death penalty)
Hussein Salem, business tycoon: tried in absentia for corruption (5-15 years in prison)
Their request was rejected earlier this month.
In mid-August, Judge Refaat angered the lawyers when he banned live TV coverage of the trial, saying he was exasperated by them showing off for the cameras.
Some of Egypt's most powerful figures have testified since the trial began in August.
The head of the ruling military council, former Defence Minister Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, told a closed-door session in September that Mr Mubarak had never given orders to shoot protesters.
The former president could face the death penalty if found guilty.
More than 5,000 policemen will be deployed on Wednesday to secure the police academy, according to the interior ministry. Riot police have often had to separate anti- and pro-Mubarak crowds, who have fought outside.
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![Foto : Hosní Mubarak Foto : Reuters
Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak (Arabic: محمد حسني سيد مبارك, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd ˈħosni ˈsæjjed moˈbɑːɾˤɑk], Muḥammad Ḥusnī Sayyid Mubārak; born 4 May 1928[2]) is a former Egyptian politician and military commander. He served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
Mubarak was appointed Vice President of Egypt in 1975, and assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat. His almost thirty-year presidency made him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha.[3] Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rising to the rank of air chief marshal.
Mubarak was ousted after 18 days of demonstrations during the 2011 Egyptian revolution[4] when, on 11 February, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as president and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.[5][6] On 13 April, a prosecutor[which?] ordered Mubarak and both his sons to be detained for 15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of power.[7] He was then ordered to stand trial on charges of premeditated murder of peaceful protestors during the revolution.[8] These trials officially began on 3 August 2011.[9] Egypt’s military prosecutors then also proclaimed that it is investigating Mubarak's role in the assassination of his predecessor Anwar Sadat.](/foto//f_02551_m.jpg)