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Omar Suleiman
The trial of Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, continued on Tuesday with the hearing of a very important member of the former regime, Omar Suleiman, former head of security and even vice-president of the country.
The hearing was conducted without the presence of the media, but it is considered that Suleiman was questioned about the order to attack the people in the streets of the country in January and February.
The summon of Omar Suleiman is unprecedented for Egypt, where no military leader or intelligence chief was ever called to testify.
Field marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the leader of the military council that leads Egypt now, and was the defense minister of the former regime, was expected to appear before court on Sunday, but he failed to appear. His excuse was that he was preoccupied with national security matters after the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
Tantawi had said earlier in the year that he would testify in advanced stages of the trial, so that the army won’t take the pressure of this important procedure.
Tantawi’s testimony was thus postponed until September 24, while the testimony his armed forces chief of staff was expected to give was postponed until September 25.
The trial went through many phases since it began, from barring the access of the cameras in the courtroom in session two, in order to spare the former president the indignity of being exposed on a stretcher in a cage (he was the one to impose these procedures in Egypt’s judicial system), to the prosecution’s evidence being compromised by the fact that four witnesses shifted testimony, and to the accusing of perjury a police officer that said he had no knowledge of any use of live ammunition against the protestors.
The former president is accused of having ordered the crackdown of the unrest in Egypt by use of live ammunition. If found guilty, Mubarak could be executed, a sentence many people in Egypt are expecting, a possible acquittal being seen as potential for renewed protests.
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