CAIRO (AFP) – Hosni Mubarak’s murder and corruption trial, which opens on Wednesday, is generating a mixture of excitement and regret among the Egyptians who overthrew the veteran president.
Mubarak, 83, is charged with murder in connection to the deaths of more than 800 anti-regime protesters and corruption during his widely reviled three decades in rule.
“He’s like all men, he must be judged for his crimes,” said Hussein Sabra, a shoeshiner in Cairo’s middle-class neigbourhood of Dokki.
The trial of Mubarak and his two sons Alaa and Gamal is a source of friction between activists who demanded justice for his abuses and the military which took over after his resignation on February 11.
Hundreds of protesters held a sit-in starting on July 8 in Cairo’s Tahrir square to press the chief demand of a speedy trial for Mubarak which they believed the military council — whose generals Mubarak handpicked — would delay.
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