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Egypt\u2019s toppled president Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday, August 3, on charges ranging from conspiring in the killing of protesters to abusing power to amass wealth.
“If you feel sympathy for any dictator broken and standing in a cage, remember him when he was unjust on the throne,” Marian wrote on Twitter, Reuters reported.
Mubarak appeared in the cage on a hospital bed in the court at the well-fortified Police Academy.
Mubarak’s two sons, Alaa and Gamal, also on trial, were dressed in the white outfits of defendants.
Judge Ahmed Refaat called for quiet when he entered the court to start the trial.
The former president, who was ousted in an 18-day uprising in February, was flown to Cairo from Sharm El-Sheikh where he stayed since his overthrow.
“It was beyond my wildest dreams,” Ahmed Farghali, who gathered with a group of protestors outside the hospital where Mubarak stayed, said of Mubarak being locked in cage.
Speculation had swirled in the hours before the trial about whether the frail 83-year-old, hospitalized in the Red Sea resort Sea since April, would turn up in the Cairo court.
Mubarak is on trial with his two sons Gamal, a banker-turned-politician once seen as being groomed for the top office, and Alaa, who had business interests, as well as former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and six senior officers.
A business executive and Mubarak confidant, Hussein Salem, is being tried in absentia.
Charges range from conspiring in the killing of protesters to abusing power to amass wealth.
If convicted, Mubarak could face the death penalty.
In his only public comments since quitting, he vowed in April to clear his name and that of his family of accusations of corruption.
Wednesday’s court session may be over quickly with charges read and pleas recorded.
Legal experts say comments by Judge Refaat before the trial suggested there might be daily sessions after this to ensure a swift verdict.
Police patrolled the street near Mubarak’s hospital and barred the way to a small group of protesters outside, chanting: “The people want the execution of the killer.”<\/p>\n

Tension<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outside the court site on the outskirts of Cairo, a screen was erected to show the trial.
Pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters faced off. Some in the two groups hurled stones at each other. Hundreds of police outside intervened to calm them down.
A small pro-Mubarak rally of men, women and children chanted: “Oh Mubarak hold your head high” and “We will demolish the prison and burn it down, if Hosni Mubarak is sentenced.”
Nearby another group against Mubarak chanted: “Raise your voice, Freedom will not die.”
Despite appearing in court, some Egyptians were still skeptical about Mubarak\u2019s trial.
“I don’t think anyone has any illusions at the moment that the trial would actually be a real, fair trial,” protester Nariman Yousseff told the BBC.
“We’re all waiting to see what’s going to happen, how they’re going to get out of it, because it’s been pretty clear and it’s become even clearer in the last few days that… the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who are in charge at the moment, do not really have any intention of fulfilling the revolution’s demands.”
Egyptians camped out in Cairo for more than three weeks in July to demand faster reforms by the army council, including swifter trials of Mubarak and his aides over corruption and protester deaths.
Many suspect the military of foot-dragging over their former leader.
Mubarak’s trial is unprecedented.
He was driven from office by his people and they are holding him to account in a way that will send a stark message to other Arab rulers facing unrest.
Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the first Arab leader to be ousted in the Arab Spring, was tried and sentenced to jail in absentia. He fled to Saudi Arabia.
Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was ousted by US-led forces, then tried and hanged.<\/p>\n

Source: OnIslam & News Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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