Prosecutors in the Hosni Mubarak trial claim Egypt’s ousted president, his security chief and six top police officers were the “actual instigators” of the killing of more than 800 protesters during Arab Spring protests last year.
Mubarak and his seven co-defendants could face the death penalty if convicted, as Chief Prosecutor Mustafa Suleiman claims, of authorizing the use of live ammunition and a shoot-to-kill policy against peaceful protesters.
Concerns arose earlier in the week that Mubarak’s charges might be dropped after security officers in a separate trial were acquitted and after Lawyers for families of killed protesters tried unsuccessfully to have the presiding judges, who they claim are corrupt, replaced.
No word, of course, has been uttered about Mubarak’s American enablers in Washington, who for years provided unrivaled economic and military aid to his regime, including the riot gear, tear gas, and live rounds used against protesters.
Now, Egypt’s current military rulers have solidified their undemocratic rule and continued brutal repression of reform-minded protesters all while U.S. money and weapons have continued to flow. Legal repercussions for these latest abuses by the military junta have not even been pursued, let alone for their supporters in the U.S. government.
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Mubarak orders shoot to kill of Egyptian Civilians and the Legally Backward Egyptians are going to charge him with Murder, The United States supposed bastion of Law to Civilised society makes a new law allowing the President to do so regardless of the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions to order the execution of persons without trial!
Why is it that so many Americans think that Muslim countries dont follow accepted practices of law!
It's all about "American Exceptionalism" – the US is the Master of the Known Universe – and in the eyes of the Right-wingers – the Unknown Universe. This belief enables the oligarchs to do whatever they damn well please.