Egyptian former Minister of Interior Habib el Adli, the main figure of the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak and is in custody, pleaded innocent today to start a trial against him for alleged money laundering and illicit enrichment of. El Adli appeared in this first session, which lasted only half an hour, before a Cairo criminal court.
According to state media, the judge decided to delay the hearing until next April 2 in response to a defense request for information and provide documentation. Wearing the white uniform of the prisoners of preventive, El Adli calmly denied the accusations against him. "No, that did not happen," he replied to hear the charges.
Activists in favor of democracy require the judge to exresponsable of Interior, who is accused of torture and murder in secret prisons by human rights violations and to order fire on demonstrators during the first days of the riots against President Mubarak. The court, presided by Judge Qansua Mohamadi, and authorized the defense lawyers to make copies of all documents submitted by the applicant and decided the continuation of preventive detention for the accused.
Gathered outside the court dozens of people shouted slogans against El Adli and the Mubarak regime in the midst of a major military deployment. Among the crowd, protesters had relatives killed by the police repression during the protests, calling for the execution of the former minister.
The Attorney General began investigating after receiving a notice last day 12 of the Unit for Combating Money Laundering Egyptian Central Bank reported that the owner of a construction company entered 4.5 million pounds (just over half million euros) in a bank account of El Adli. The investigation revealed that this same company had previously been awarded a project of the Ministry of Interior.
The last 17, a week after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian general prosecutor, Mahmud Abdelmeguid ordered remand for El Adli, whose bank accounts were frozen, and three exresponsables the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Five days later, Mahmud ordered the trial of El Adli and former Minister of Tourism, on a criminal Garana Zoher urgent.
The trial coincides with the assault last night by a crowd in Alexandria building services of State Security, the Ministry of the Interior. 
According to state media, the judge decided to delay the hearing until next April 2 in response to a defense request for information and provide documentation. Wearing the white uniform of the prisoners of preventive, El Adli calmly denied the accusations against him. "No, that did not happen," he replied to hear the charges.
Activists in favor of democracy require the judge to exresponsable of Interior, who is accused of torture and murder in secret prisons by human rights violations and to order fire on demonstrators during the first days of the riots against President Mubarak. The court, presided by Judge Qansua Mohamadi, and authorized the defense lawyers to make copies of all documents submitted by the applicant and decided the continuation of preventive detention for the accused.
Gathered outside the court dozens of people shouted slogans against El Adli and the Mubarak regime in the midst of a major military deployment. Among the crowd, protesters had relatives killed by the police repression during the protests, calling for the execution of the former minister.
The Attorney General began investigating after receiving a notice last day 12 of the Unit for Combating Money Laundering Egyptian Central Bank reported that the owner of a construction company entered 4.5 million pounds (just over half million euros) in a bank account of El Adli. The investigation revealed that this same company had previously been awarded a project of the Ministry of Interior.
The last 17, a week after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian general prosecutor, Mahmud Abdelmeguid ordered remand for El Adli, whose bank accounts were frozen, and three exresponsables the regime of Hosni Mubarak. Five days later, Mahmud ordered the trial of El Adli and former Minister of Tourism, on a criminal Garana Zoher urgent.
The trial coincides with the assault last night by a crowd in Alexandria building services of State Security, the Ministry of the Interior.
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