Egyptian military junta moves to free Mubarak

[American_Jihad]

Interesting, sorry about the source, lol...

Egyptian military junta moves to free Mubarak​

By Alex Lantier
20 August 2013

After a week of massacres that have left thousands of unarmed protesters killed or wounded, the Egyptian military junta is moving to free the hated former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, who has sat in prison since a revolutionary uprising of the working class forced his ouster in February 2011.

When a judge cleared Mubarak on corruption charges yesterday, Mubarak’s lawyer Farid el-Deeb told the press: “All we have left is a simple administrative procedure that should take no more than 48 hours. He should be freed by the end of the week.”

El-Deeb confidently predicted that Mubarak would be cleared of another outstanding corruption charge. He would then be free to leave prison on bail, while appealing his conviction on charges of failing to stop the army’s massacres of protesters during the 2011 uprising. The junta, which includes many feloul—ex-Mubarak regime elements—and whose massacres have claimed approximately 1,000 dead and 6,000 wounded, according to official estimates, will be desperate to acquit Mubarak on those charges as well.

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In a further indication that Washington’s relations with the junta remain strong, the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman escorted by two guided-missile destroyers and two cruisers passed through the Suez Canal yesterday without incident.

Speaking of the Egyptian military, General James Mattis told the New York Times: “We need them for the Suez Canal, we need them for the peace treaty against Israel, we need them for overflight [rights], we need them for the continued fight against violent extremists who are as much of a threat to Egypt’s transition to democracy as they are to American interests.”



Egyptian military junta moves to free Mubarak - World Socialist Web Site

 

[ScienceRocks]

I think they should reinstall him...Once that's done he can really crack down on the extremist.

 

[Lipush]

Oh, how the wheel turns...

 

[American_Jihad]

Mubarak Is Moved From Prison to House Arrest, Stoking Anger of Islamists​

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ROD NORDLAND
8/22/13

CAIRO — Egypt’s new rulers on Thursday moved former President Hosni Mubarak from a prison cell to house arrest at a military hospital, ending more than two years of incarceration but stopping short of granting him full freedom.

His release stoked the anger of the thousands of Islamists and others still protesting in the streets around the country nightly to denounce the military’s ouster last month of Mr. Mubarak’s successor, Mohamed Morsi, who remains in detention at an undisclosed location. But among other groups, reaction was muted.

The left-leaning April 6 Group, which spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Mr. Mubarak, 85, called off a planned protest against Mr. Mubarak’s release for fear that Mr. Morsi’s Islamist supporters might exploit it for their own cause, or that security forces might crush it in their drive to suppress the Islamists. It was canceled “to avoid the shedding of more Egyptian blood,” the group said in a statement.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/world/middleeast/mubarak-egypt.html?_r=0

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dey gonna keep tryin' him till dey find him guilty...

Mubarak in Court for Retrial
September 14, 2013 ~ An Egyptian judge has ordered former top security officials to testify in the retrial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

The judge made the order during a Saturday hearing for Mubarak, who is on trial for complicity in the killings of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his resignation. The judge has summoned a former intelligence chief and several other Mubarak-era security directors to testify in proceedings that will begin on October 19. The judge also ordered a media blackout, citing security concerns.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seated, and his two sons Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, right, Cairo, Egypt

Mubarak wore sunglasses and was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair on Saturday. It was the second court appearance for the ailing 85-year-old former leader since he was released from prison in August. He was placed under house arrest at a military hospital near Cairo.

Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last year, but a higher court ordered a retrial on appeal. A small group of Mubarak supporters gathered outside of the courthouse on Saturday. Some chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood.

Mubarak in Court for Retrial

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - next thing ya know dey'll be restorin' him back to office...

Murder charges against Egypt's Mubarak dismissed
Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014 — A judge dismissed murder charges Saturday against former President Hosni Mubarak and acquitted his security chief over the killing of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising, crushing any hope of a judicial reckoning on behalf of the hundreds victims of the revolt that toppled him.

Yet instead of outrage, a largely muted initial reaction greeted the decision in an Egypt where unlicensed protests draw stiff prison terms and many remain fearful over their security four years after the nation's Arab Spring revolt. Some 2,000 young people protested the verdict near Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising closed off Saturday by soldiers and police, though open a day earlier despite widespread fears of violent Islamist protests. They chanted against the military, whose former chief, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is now the president. "The people want to bring down the regime!" they shouted, using one of the chief slogans in the 18-day, anti-Mubarak uprising.

In the evening, police broke up the gathering, firing water cannon and tear gas and driving protesters into side streets after supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood joined the protest. An Interior Ministry statement said that Brotherhood supporters pelted security forces with rocks and fought with the protesters.

Anti-government protesters pull on barbed wire separating them from security forces after a judge on Saturday dismissed the case against former President Hosni Mubarak and acquitted his security chief over the killing of hundreds of protesters during Egypt’s 2011 uprising, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. The court ruling received a muted initial reaction in an Egypt where unlicensed protests draw stiff prison terms. Later Saturday several thousand protested the verdict near Cairo’s Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 2011 uprising, chanting against the military, whose former chief, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, is now the president.

Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to brief reporters, said police arrested 29 people. The dispersal contrasted with the jubilant well-wishers who greeted Mubarak after the decision when he returned to his temporary home at a Nile-side military hospital. He later triumphantly waved back to supporters from his hospital window. A television interviewer reached him by telephone, asking whether he had ordered the killing.

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[Katzndogz]

obumble bumbles again.

 

[Mr. H.]

I miss AJ.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Good news.....