"Hosni Mubarak’s trial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters during Egypt’s uprising will be held at a police academy on Cairo’s outskirts instead of a convention center in the heart of the capital, the head of Cairo’s appeals court said yesterday.
The change appears to be linked to concerns over security during the ousted leader’s trial, which is scheduled to begin Wednesday....
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"Hosni Mubarak will receive a speedy trial with all hearings broadcast live on state television, the judge who will try the ousted leader pledged yesterday. The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the country’s national police academy in a Cairo suburb....
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"The sheer symbolism of the day made it one of the most visceral episodes in modern Arab history"
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"Mubarak officials back in court for hearing" August 05, 2011|Associated Press
CAIRO - A day after the start of Hosni Mubarak’s historic trial, seven of his codefendants were back in court yesterday for a hearing on charges that they were complicit in the killing of protesters during the uprising that toppled Egypt’s longtime president.
The hearing of former interior minister Habib el-Adly and six top police officials was broadcast live on Egyptian state television.
The seven first appeared in court Wednesday in the same defendants’ cage with Mubarak and his two sons in a related case that is being tried by the same judge. The Mubaraks’ trial resumes Aug. 15.
Mubarak, Adly, and the six police officials face the death penalty if convicted over the protesters’ deaths.
The three Mubaraks face separate corruption charges.
Adly was Mubarak’s interior minister for more than a decade, in charge of the country’s security forces. Some of the worst human rights abuses during Mubarak’s tenure are blamed on Adly and his police force.
Yesterday’s hearing was entirely taken up by procedural matters, with Judge Ahmed Rifaat opening boxes of evidence as defense lawyers looked on. The evidence included operational police logs covering the time of the uprising - Jan. 25 to Feb. 11 - with details about the movement of forces and issuing of firearms and ammunition.
They also included several weapons and ammunition rounds. One piece of evidence was the blood-soaked jacket of one of the 850 protesters killed during the 18-day uprising.
The judge gave the lawyers a week to examine the evidence before hearings resume Aug. 14.
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