CAIRO: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif are presenting a request before the Supreme Administrative Court to overturn the ruling issued against them. The court requires both of them to pay 240 million EGP (U.S. $40.3 million) in compensation for cutting off communications during the January 25 Revolution. The Administrative Court's Investment Department, lead by Judge Hamdi Yassin, obliged Hosni Mubarak, Ahmed Nazif and former Minister of Interior, Habib al-Adly, 540 million EGP (U.S. $90.6 million) in total for economic loss sustained by the Egyptian economy during the days the communications were cut off. The lawyer, Mohamed el-Aal, filed the case. He had initially called for a ruling to overturn the decision to cut off communications. The court said in its ruling the decision to cut off communication was an attempt to abort the revolution and keep Mubarak and his government in office. The Court emphasized the decision to cut the service was not spontaneous but deliberate and premeditated for a long time. The defendants will be contesting ruling on grounds that the court did not judge them in their professional capacity but rather as private individuals. The court will force them to pay compensation from their personal accounts.
