Egypt’s President Won’t Pursue Action Against Mubarak

CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Sunday that he accepted the end of legal actions against the former president, Hosni Mubarak, declaring in a statement that Egypt must now “look to the future” and “cannot ever go back.”

His remarks, a day after a court dropped all remaining charges against Mr. Mubarak, indicated that Mr. Sisi would make no further attempts to hold Mr. Mubarak accountable for the corruption or human rights abuses that characterized his three decades in power. In his first response to Saturday’scourt decision, Mr. Sisi emphasized the importance of “full confidence in the fairness, integrity, impartiality and competence of Egypt’s judges.”

The president said he had directed his prime minister to review the government’s compensation to the families of the hundreds of demonstrators who were killed during the 2011 uprising against Mr. Mubarak. He also said that, following the recommendation of the court, he was asking a committee to review the procedural technicalities that the court had cited on Saturday when it dismissed murder charges against Mr. Mubarak that accused him of directing those killings.   Read More at NYTimes