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Defence makes case as Mubarak trial resumes
Ahram Online Published in Ahram Online on 24 - 01 - 2012

Former interior minister's lawyer claims foreign spy agencies recruited 'elements' to kill protesters during uprising, accuses ex-police officer of encouraging violence, sabotage on occasion of revolution's anniversary
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As Egypt's democratically elected parliament began its Tuesday session bydemanding justice and compensation for protesters slain during Egypt's January revolution, the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak resumed.
Mubarak, former interior minister Habib El-Adly, and six of the latter's assistants stand accused of ordering security forces to open fire on unarmed demonstrators during last year's 18-day Tahrir Square uprising.
On Tuesday, El-Adly's defence lawyer, Essam El-Batawy, continued to make the case for his client's innocence.
El-Batawy conceded that “some violations” had been committed, but asserted that orders issued to security forces to stop anti-regime protesters from entering the flashpoint square had been for protesters' own safety.
The lawyer added that both protesters and police forces had committed violent acts, pointing out that, as soon as El-Adly had stepped down, important state institutions were set on fire by activists. “If it weren't for El-Adly, Egypt would have turned into Syria or Libya,” he said.
El-Batawy attributed the former regime's decision to cut public telephone and internet access to an earlier meeting at Egypt's Smart Village (located on the capital's outskirts) attended by then-vice president Omar Soliman, then-prime minister Ahmed Nazifand then-telecommunications minister Tarek Kamel.
The lawyer also alluded to the involvement of foreign intelligence agencies, which, he alleged, had recruited “certain elements” to kill anti-regime protesters.
El-Batawy went on to accuse former police officer Omar Afifi of encouraging demonstrators to attack police and torch state institutions on the revolution's first anniversary on Wednesday.

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