Mubarak trial adjourned to January 17 Cairo – Akram Ali The Criminal Court of North Cairo headed by Judge Ahmed Refaat on Tuesday adjourned the trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, and his former Interior Minister Habib El-Adli to 17 January, after which it will hold daily sessions until 16 February.
The court also decided to start hearing session of Mubarak’s defense lawyers on January 17 until January 22, and to hear the fifth defendant, Habib El-Adli’s defense lawyers on January 23 until January 30, which means, Farid El-Deeb, the lawyer defending Mubarak and his sons, will begin his defense, which will take five days. He will be followed by the lawyer defending ex-Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, who will take a further six days to make his case.
The court heard 21 of the lawyers representing the families of those killed and wounded in a civil suit against Mubarak and his co-defendants. Lawyers echoed prosecution calls for Mubarak to receive the heaviest possible sentence.
During the hearing, lawyer Ashraf Mukhtar called for Mubarak and his co-defendants to pay a 1 billion Egyptian pound ($160 million) fine for exposing public property to arson and withdrawing security forces from the streets, which led to a security breakdown.
Mukhtar said the decision to pull police and security forces off the streets was intended to scare Egyptians into believing they faced a choice between Mubarak's autocratic rule and chaos.
In addition, lawyer Fathi Abu Hassan demanded adding high treason to the charges, accusing the ousted president of premeditated murder, incitement, complicity in killing protesters and failure to stop violence against them.
Meanwhile, there were a small number of Mubarak supporters outside the police academy as a small number of the angry victims’ families.
It’s worth mentioning that, the court decided on Monday to hear several civil rights plaintiffs and to resume the hearing in Tuesday.
In Monday session, Sameh Ashour representing the plaintiff has demanded Mubarak be executed, while Amir Salem, who represents the families of the victims in the civil case alleged in court that both Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, and former Vice President Omar Suleiman both lied in their testimonies, he also accused the national security and the ex-state security of having a network of 165,000 thugs trained to attack the revolutionaries.