Egypt court postpones Mubarak verdict to 1 Nov
29 Sept 2014 3:26 AM IST
Judge Mahmoud Kamel el-Rashidi said during the televised trial that the case contained 160,000 papers, and reading through them was taking time.
‘We have written 60 per cent of the verdict’s reasons but still haven’t finished, that’s why we are postponing issuing this verdict,’ said the judge as he postponed the verdict until 29 November.
The court also screened a short documentary showing the 160,000 papers which were gathered into two rooms in the judge’s residence.
Earlier on Satuday, 86-year-old Mubarak arrived in a helicopter to New Cairo’s Police Academy ahead of an expected verdict.
Several of Mubarak’s supporters and opponents gathered outside the academy where Cairo’s Criminal Court was expected to issue its verdict in the retrial.
Families of the victims held pictures of relatives they lost while Mubarak supporters chanted slogans questioning whether Egypt had really improved following Mubarak’s ouster.
Mubarak is being retried on charges of his complicity in the killing of around 850 unarmed protesters during the January, 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.
His sons Gamal and Alaa, Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly, and six of El-Adly’s aides are also charged in the same case.
‘We have written 60 per cent of the verdict’s reasons but still haven’t finished, that’s why we are postponing issuing this verdict,’ said the judge as he postponed the verdict until 29 November.
The court also screened a short documentary showing the 160,000 papers which were gathered into two rooms in the judge’s residence.
Earlier on Satuday, 86-year-old Mubarak arrived in a helicopter to New Cairo’s Police Academy ahead of an expected verdict.
Several of Mubarak’s supporters and opponents gathered outside the academy where Cairo’s Criminal Court was expected to issue its verdict in the retrial.
Families of the victims held pictures of relatives they lost while Mubarak supporters chanted slogans questioning whether Egypt had really improved following Mubarak’s ouster.
Mubarak is being retried on charges of his complicity in the killing of around 850 unarmed protesters during the January, 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.
His sons Gamal and Alaa, Mubarak-era interior minister Habib El-Adly, and six of El-Adly’s aides are also charged in the same case.
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