Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Mubarak is accused of murder

The deposed President Hosni Mubarak has been accused of murder for the death of 386 people during the rebellion that led to his overthrow on 11 February, revealed the daily Al Ahram on its website. The indictment was issued by the human rights commission investigating the acts of violence during the 18 days of Egyptian rebellion, which erupted on January 25, emulating the success of the Revolution Jasmines in Tunisia.

According to the commission, created by the military government of transition, the former president and his then Interior Minister Habib al Adli, are criminally liable for the deaths of at least 386 people during the demonstrations. Mubarak and the minister have ordered the repression against protesters, which police used tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets and even live ammunition, the state newspaper said on its website.

Adli Mubarak and are directly responsible for the shootings and violence over the police and Egyptian security forces used against the demonstrators who participated in the so-called Egyptian Revolution, according to the indictment. The committee considered that Mubarak should answer for the deaths of the demonstrators, which has turned over its findings to the Attorney General of Cairo to proceed against him.

In addition to the deposed president and interior minister, the commission accused several police officers and senior leaders of National Democratic Party (NDP) Mubarak of violence during the rebellion. The charges against Mubarak are released one day that the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Luis Moreno Ocampo, arrived in Cairo to meet with leaders of human rights groups and learn what happened in rebellion.

According to Al Ahram, Ocampo plans to analyze the inclusion of Egypt in the Rome Statute that created the ICC, to study the possibility to prosecute suspects involved in crimes against humanity during the rebellion.

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