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Prosecution demands death penalty for Mubarak

Published time: January 05, 2012 16:43
Edited time: January 05, 2012 20:43
Cairo : Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled on a stretcher into court for his murder trial in Cairo on January 5, 2012. (AFP Photo/STR)
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Prosecutors in the trial of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have called for death by hanging, saying the former leader is personally responsible for every protester death during the country's recent revolution.

­ "The prosecution demands the maximum penalty against Mubarak, and the rest of the accused, which is death by hanging," said Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member prosecution team.

On Wednesday another prosecutor, Mustafa Suleiman, called Mubarak, his security chief and top six police officers the “true instigators” of mass killings during last winter's uprisings.

Mubarak is facing charges of ordering the killings of protesters during last January and February's demonstrations. The hearings have been postponed several times due to the 83-year-old defendant's severely deteriorating health.

Critics say the case has been dragged out to draw public attention to the country's current situation.

Radio host and author Stephen Lendman agreed, telling RT that the trial and the prosecution’s demands are “a distraction to divert public attention from what is going on the streets.

Lendman explained that since Mubarak was ousted, “things have gotten worse, not better, there are thousands of people in military prisons there being tortured; they are being killed. The violence on the streets exceeds anything that ever went on under Mubarak. Maybe they have gotten rid of one bad guy, but they went from the frying pan into the fire.

According to Lendman, the military is looking for a fall guy, “and Mubarak is a fall guy very conveniently because he is also a fall guy with Washington.

Lendman maintains that the United States has a big hand in Mubarak's case, and in Egyptian events in general.

Mubarak lost favor with Washington years ago. He supported Washington mostly, but he did not support Washington in all its policies. A big one he opposed was the war in Iraq in 2003. America wanted him removed. The street protests on the one hand are very legitimate and very real … but behind the scenes Washington manipulated them. Washington manipulated the entire process going on in the region.

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dyke davis 08.01.2012 18:22

Most of these post sound as hopeless as the situation now unfolding in the streets of Egypt, even as a little sunlights is beginning to shine into the darkest corners of the New Egypt. Yes, its going to take alot of blood, sweat, death and tears along with a maturing of the secular Youth Movement to find their voice and organization skills in mounting over time a creditable challenge to the status quo. And, yes there is a formitable western apparatus in place at every turn to keep its foot in the door against a more representative government for the majority of the people. But, if I were to lay my money on anyone to come out ahead in the future and bring about a more user-friendly strong Egypt, I would place my money on the Youth Movement any day of the week. The Islamist and other extremist parties will have to delivery the matrix of goods and services that have in the past been horded by the upper-classes and the military-corporate elite or they will be as useless as the previous regime leading to another and probally more frightening revolt, if they think all this effort and death was to merely allow another dictoral regime to rule over the majority. Let's wait and see, before closing down the struggle and giving the external controllers the win. Remember, its not over until its over and like any attempt at nation-building their will be valleys and hills, but the true visionary knows how to see the finish line far off into the distance.

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Clydealmighty 07.01.2012 13:42

владимир George. What is your solution. It seams that every person that lives in a horrible place only has to blame the USA to make them selves feel better. I am not an American, but I am sick of seeing people do nothing for themselves then blame the USA for their problems, that does not help anything. We all know we get the government we deserve. Good or bad.

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владимир 06.01.2012 11:13

Our former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic was also pronounced as a murderer and destroyer of serbian national interests. He was arrested and given to Hague's sharks. Now we got already 11 years of "democratic" wasting of all our national interests. Serbia is finally grounded.Same to you, people of Egypt, Mubarak would never be so devastating to Egypts national interests like the USA soon will be. US domination plan on the middle east is almost done, supported by the MI-6 created so called Arab League. So, my dear Egyptians, just continue to support "holy" opposition and you'll soon find yourself more desperate than you are right now. 

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