CAIRO - Security forces are doing their best to secure the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, former interior minister Habib el-Adli and six of his senior officers. The trial is due to resume on Wednesday. Mubarak and the other accused are charged with giving orders to kill protesters in Tahrir Square during January 25 Revolution. They also are accused in other cases. Police are working with the Army on a traffic and security plan for the trial, with the Interior Ministry deploying more than 5,000 policemen from different sectors, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reports. The plan will involve securing the transfer of Mubarak from the World Medical Centre and his sons from Tora Prison to the Police Academy in New Cairo, where the trial will be held, and back again. More than 30 armoured vehicles will participate in the operation, whose aim is to prevent thugs and outlaws from getting near the Academy. Only the first two sessions of the trial of Mubarak and his followers have been aired. Meanwhile, Youssri Abdel-Razeq, one of Mubarak's volunteer lawyers, said on Monday that the recent clashes between troops and protesters in Mohamed Mahmoud Street and the Cabinet Street in central Cairo, leaving tens dead and more than 1,000 injured, may help them prove that Mubarak is innocent of killing protesters. Abdel-Razeq added that, during the three months since the last session of the trial was held, they have found documents and eyewitnesses to confirm that protesters were killed by only one type of weapon and the sniping protesters were all in the same place. He stressed that these proofs have been reached inside and outside Egypt. According to investigative reports, some people inside Egypt have been co-operating with some foreigners via Facebook to destabilise the country. “These same people stole ambulances and police cars and used to run over protesters last January. They helped convicts escape from prison and torched police stations, on the orders of Hizbollah, the Palestinian Al-Qassam Brigades and the Muslim Brotherhood,” Abdel-Razeq claimed, adding that the trial sessions will be held every day until the case has finished. A group of Kuwaiti lawyers are due to fly to on Monday to defend Mubarak, who is charged with complicity in the killings. If convicted, he could face the death penalty and many people would be satisfied with this. The families of the martyrs and injured are demanding retribution for their sons and daughters. Since the toppling of Mubarak, protests have been continuing daily in Tahrir Square, where several hundred protesters have set up camp. Some are demanding the Army bring forward the presidential vote to as early as January 25, the first anniversary of the uprising that ousted him.
