Mubarak leaves hospital for Cairo trial
Egypt’s former ruler Hosni Mubarak has left the Sharm el-Sheikh hospital for airport to appear in a Cairo court where he will be tried on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of anti-government protesters.
"Mubarak has left Sharm el-Sheikh hospital," Muhammad Naguib, the head of security in South Sinai, told Reuters on Wednesday after a motorcade that included ambulances and security vehicles left the hospital in the Red Sea resort and headed for the local airport.
Police patrolled the street near Mubarak’s hospital and barred the way to protesters who were chanting, "The people want the execution of the killer."
Large numbers of people also gathered outside a court in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Wednesday, awaiting the trial of the ousted ruler.
Mubarak is going to be transferred from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo under tight security measures.
The ousted Egyptian president is due to appear in court along with several of his former associates on the outskirts of Cairo on Wednesday.
He is reportedly receiving treatment for a heart condition.
Egypt’s ruling military council has refrained from handing in Mubarak for imprisonment under the pretext that the ousted dictator is ill.
Mubarak’s transfer to Cairo has been a key demand of people still protesting at the landmark Liberation Square.
Mubarak, his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and six senior policemen are to face charges of ordering the killing of anti-government protesters in Egypt as well as corruption and the use of violence against protesters.
Source: irib.ir
