Showing posts with label Mubarak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mubarak. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Mubarak to be tried in the death

Hosni Mubarak is detained in a military hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh after Declaration of Egypt of heart problems of the ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried in the death of anti-government protestersjudicial authorities said.

Mr. Mubarak, who was ousted in February, is detained in a hospital in the Sea Red resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.


He and his wife also face allegations of illegally acquiring wealth while they were in power for 30 years.


Two sons of the couple, Alaa and Gamal, are held in the prison of Tora prison in Cairo and face charges of fraud.


The three men were charged with "premeditated murder of some participants in peaceful demonstrations of the revolution of January 25," News Agency of the country reported the Attorney General said.


More than 800 people died in the repression of long weeks that preceded the departure of Mr. Mubarak.


The charges come after calls renewed for protests Friday to demand the trial of the Mubarak family and the lifting of the emergency law.


Hosni Mubarak and his son Gamal and Alaa are accused of planning the assassination of demonstrators to the revolution, which began January 25. The goal, according to the prosecution was to kill some and intimidate others.


The former President is accused of accepting gifts, including a Palace and four villas in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. He is also accused of conspiring with the businessman Hussein Salem, who was also charged, to sell the gas cheaply in Israel and therefore to defraud the Government of Egypt of several million dollars.


According to a report, a medical team is now visit Mr. Mubarak at the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to see if he is well enough to travel to Cairo - either be transferred to the hospital in the capital or in the prison where her two sons are already held.

Administration led by the military of Egypt appears to be a response to pressure from the public for the first family former judge, says the BBC Jon Leyne in the accounts of the Cairo.Frozen

The former leader of 83 years old was admitted to the military hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh in April with reported heart problems.


He and his wife Suzanne - who also recently examined for possible heart problems - after fallen ill have already been questioned in the seaside resort of the Red Sea on charges of profiteering.


Reformers in Egypt believe that the Mubarak family has accumulated a fortune worth tens of billions of dollars in power.


The Mubaraks have denied, and little hard evidence has yet been made public. However, their bank in Cairo and Switzerland accounts have been frozen.


Suzanne Mubarak was not mentioned in the announcement of Tuesday, the charges, but his situation may have brought the latest development, our correspondent adds.

Suzanne Mubarak has been released after rehabilitation on a villa and 2 million pounds of bank accounts in Cairo

70 Years of age has been released last week after his return gave a villa in a suburb of Cairo and 3 m $ (£ 1. 9 m) held in accounts of Bank in Egypt. His release prompted a backlash, with many fearing the Mubaraks may negotiate a form any amnesty.


More than 20 ministers Mubarak-era and businessmen linked to the regime have been detained since February of the uprising.


Earlier this month, former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of money laundering and guys.


Adly also faces separate charges of order troops to fire on demonstrators. There are facing the death penalty if convicted.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Mubarak to stand trial for the death of protesters

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons will be maintained the trial for the death of hundreds of demonstrators during the revolution of the country earlier this year. The three are facing the penalty of death if recognized guilty of the charges.

The Egypt Attorney General made the announcement Tuesday after weeks of investigation into the crackdown and alleged corruption. In a statement on Facebook, the Attorney said that the crimes of Mubarak were "intentional murder, attempted to kill some demonstrators... undue influence and deliberately wasteful of public funds and profits and private financial gain illegally."

Mubarak, 83, was too ill to be transferred to the prison of Tora prison in Cairo where his son, Gamal and Alaa, are held. Instead, he remained in a hospital in the station of Rea sea of Sharm el-Sheikh, following a heart attack.

The former President resigned from Office on February 11 after a massive 18-day uprising that brought thousands of Egyptians in the streets. More than 800 deaths in the hands of security, the forces loyal to Mubarak. The Egyptian uprising helped fuel the so-called "Arab Spring" which has since spread to Bahrain, the Syria and the Libya.

The Egyptian army took over the administration of the country, promising parliamentary and presidential elections later this year. But the army has been strongly criticized for his authoritarian tactics and Tahrir square - Central Cairo intersection, made famous by the revolution – continues to see protests every Friday after the noon prayer. There are calls for a "million-man March" for May 27 and Monday, hundreds of bloggers posted messages critical of the military Council and its leader, the marĂ©chal Mohamed Tantawi.

It was reported that Mubarak planned to apologize to be broadcast to the nation, in which he would also agree to confiscate its property, but he never arrived.

Mubarak wife, Suzanne, had also been arrested but was released after signing over millions to the State.

A trial would probably several months and would be open to the Egyptian public, which many have long called for his prosecution. However, the death penalty that many hope for is far from assured.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Mubarak security boss jailed for 12 years

 Top security officer former President Hosni Mubarak, who led a dreaded security apparatus criticized numerous violations of rights, was convicted Thursday of corruption and the laundering of money and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The conviction of former Minister of Interior Habib el-Adly has marked the beginning of a broad reckoning with the legacy of three decades of Mubarak authoritarian rule, which ended on February 11 by a popular uprising.


El-Adly was the first of the two dozen Mubarak-era Ministers and businessmen linked to the regime be convicted. The others in custody include a former Prime Minister, the Presidents of the two houses of Parliament, and two sons of Mubarak, all the alleged corruption.


El-Adly said nothing after hearing the verdict but seemed visibly distraught, as he was later taken by guards of the police in an armoured truck was taken to jail. Hundreds of demonstrators outside the courthouse shouted insults at him that he made his way toward the truck, with some demanding that he be executed.


El-Adly served as Minister of the Interior of Mubarak for 13 years, once in the course of which its 500,000 strong security forces were blamed for some of the worst violations of human rights Egypt had seen in decades. Anger at the police brutality, including by members of the notorious State Security Agency, was a main reason for the uprising. This agency has since been dismantled.


The Court also sentenced to a fine of el-Adly 15 million Egyptian pounds, or about $ 2.5 million and ordered his property confiscated.


He faces allegations in another case that he had ordered the deadly use of live ammunition against demonstrators unarmed during the 18-day uprising that toppled Mubarak. About 850 people were killed in January 25 February 11 uprising, which was conducted by youth groups.


If he is convicted on that charge, el-Adly incur the death penalty.


Mubarak himself and one of his sons, single heir apparent Gamal, face same allegations in the massacres of demonstrators.


El-Adly and former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif also face charges of corruption related to the award of a contract for the supply of new motor vehicle licence plates without going through legal proceedings.


El-Adly is also criticized for the security vacuum created when the police disappeared in the streets of Cairo and other cities across the country, on 28 January, after several days of deadly clashes with the demonstrators. The circumstances of their disappearance were not fully explained to this day, but the effects of the vacuum that he created are still felt.


Crowds armed criminals and parents have tried over the last two days to release suspects of cells to four police stations, three of them in Cairo, a city of some 18 million people in detention.


All except one four attempts was successful. In a jailbreak, the crowd was able to release about 90 detainees by the police station in the Sahel North of Cairo Tuesday. Police have up to this new order 28 suspects escaped.


Also, the authorities continue to hunt for thousands of inmates in several prisons Egyptian in the uprising and shortly after the eviction of Mubarak.


On Tuesday, several hundred people set to bag a Cairo courtroom after a judge ordered the release without bail of 13 police officers charged with killing and injuring of demonstrators in the uprising. The crowd, estimated at approximately 500 and composed of parents and friends, was also tempted assailing the Justice of the victims.


In the city of the Sinai North of el-Arish, Thursday, an armed force have been identified when they arrived at a seaside compound to investigate a report of gunmen hiding in the region. A soldier was killed and injured an officer, an official security and a doctor of the hospital said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.