Former Egyptian leader was 'politically and legally' responsible for killing of protesters, court told
Associated Press
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 January 2012 15.06 GMT
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A prosecutor in the trial of Hosni Mubarak has demanded the death penalty for the ousted Egyptian leader on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising against his rule.
Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member prosecution team, also asked for the death sentence for Mubarak's security chief and six top police commanders who are being tried in the same case.
"Retribution is the solution," said Khater on the third and final day of the prosecution's opening statement. "Any fair judge must issue a death sentence for these defendants."
Mubarak's two sons, Gamal, the one-time heir apparent, and Alaa, face corruption charges along with their father and a close family friend who is a fugitive.
Mubarak, 83, was forced by an 18-day uprising to step down on 11 February after ruling for nearly 30 years. The military, led by a general who had served as defence minister under Mubarak for 20 years, replaced him in power.
Earlier in Thursday's hearing, the chief prosecutor, Mustafa Suleiman, said Mubarak was politically and legally responsible for the killing of protesters. He claimed that Mubarak was made aware of the killings by his aides, regional TV channels and reports by his security agencies and did nothing to stop them.
Mubarak's security chief and co-defendant, the former interior minister Habib el-Adly, authorised the use of live ammunition on orders from Mubarak, he said.
Mubarak, the top official, could never claim that he did not know what was going on, Suleiman told the court. "He is responsible for what happened and must bear the legal and political responsibility for what happened. It is irrational and illogical to assume that he did not know that protesters were being targeted."
Addressing Mubarak directly, Suleiman said: "If you had not issued these orders yourself, then where was your outburst of rage over the lives of your people?"
Testimonies by two interior ministers who succeeded El-Adly pointed out that he could not have given the order to use live ammunition against the protesters without Mubarak's personal approval, Suleiman said.
The prosecutor said Mubarak told investigators he decided to step down after the military refused to intervene to "immediately and urgently" help the security forces contain the protests. Mubarak called out the army on 28 January, three days into the uprising and on the day when security forces disappeared from the streets in circumstances that have yet to be fully explained.
Mubarak fully knew what was happening but did nothing, said Suleiman.
Another prosecutor, Wael Hussein, said that one of the six police commanders on trial, the former chief of the state security agency Hassan Abdel-Rahman, had given orders to allow inmates to escape from a string of jails across the country during the uprising. The escapees, who numbered in the thousands, have been blamed for a dramatic surge in crime since 28 January last year, when almost all vestiges of state authority collapsed.
Most of the inmates have since been captured and returned to jail, but Egypt continues to suffer higher than usual crime rates.
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