CAIRO: Judge Ahmed Fahmy Refaat, the Cairo Criminal Court President, decided today to postpone the hearing of the case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons, and former Minister of Interior Habib el-Adli and six of his top aides to next Thursday, January 26. The men are being tried for the killing of peaceful demonstrators during the January 25 uprisings that led to the ouster of the former regime. The court will adjourn on Thursday to hear accusations against the fifth defendant, Habib el-Adli, Mubarak's former Interior Minister. Meanwhile, Adli's lawyer, Essam Batawi, claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood worked in coordination with National Security prior to January 28 – the Friday of Anger – when the Brotherhood assured National Security that it will not take part in the demonstrations that day to preserve its relationship with the agency. During discussions at a meeting with his aides on the evening of January 27, the head of National Security, Hassan Abdel-Rahman, asserted that he did not believe that the Brotherhood would not take part in the demonstrations, stating that the Ministry of Interior did not trust them. A number of buses belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood were then observed on the morning of January 28, fully equipped to head for Tahrir, prompting the state to arrest several leaders of the group. Batawi then levied further accusations during the hearing, saying that a Tora prison officer told him that the Brotherhood leader had said to him: “You can stop treating us badly now; we're going to be released in a few hours anyway.” Batawi claimed that ‘foreign elements' infiltrated the demonstrations, and were responsible for the killing of demonstrators. He cited reports from the National Security Agency and Army Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, former intelligence chief, who then alleged that foreign elements from Qatar and a number of Gulf states has infiltrated the demonstrations. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/KhoFp Tags: featured, Habib el-Adli, January 25, Mubarak Trial, Muslim Brotherhood Section: Egypt, Latest News
