Egypt’s Innocent Murderers
Although Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister, Habib al-Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran the Egypt’s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted. The result has been to unite revolutionary forces ahead of the presidential runoff on June 16-17.
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CAIRO – “Bashar should abandon power and retire safely in Egypt. The general-prosecutor is murder-friendly,” a friend, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told me as we watched former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s trial in the Police Academy’s criminal court. Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al-Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt’s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.