Sunday, September 28, 2014

Egypt postpones verdict in case against ex-president Mubarak --- (Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed to Nov. 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule. -- Before adjourning the hearing on Saturday, the judge said he and members of the prosecution team had not finished reviewing all the evidence in the case, which amounted to 160,000 pages. -- A TV screen in the courtroom showed thousands of documents related to the case piled up in folders and bound with string. -- Mubarak, his interior minister Habib al-Adly and six other senior security officers are accused of ordering the killings of more than 800 protesters, sowing chaos and creating a security vacuum during the 18-day revolt. They deny the charges. -- The former strongman and Adly were both sentenced to life in prison in 2012 after being convicted in the case but an appeals court subsequently ordered a retrial. --- Mubarak, 86, arrived at the court in a medical helicopter and was wheeled off the back on a stretcher surrounded by police clutching rifles. He appeared with fellow defendants in a courtroom cage, looking pale and glum and wearing sunglasses. -- Outside the court at the Cairo police academy, his supporters gathered, carrying pictures of the former airforce commander and chanting slogans demanding his release. -- Mubarak told the court last month that he had not ordered the killing of protesters and said history would vindicate him. - More, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/us-egypt-mubarak-verdict-idUSKCN0HM07F20140927

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