The head of Egypt's ruling military council must testify against the country's deposed president if he is to be convicted, according to the president of the Cairo Court of Appeals. Judge Hisham Ginaina said it is clear that the evidence presented by the investigations committees is not enough to convict former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The testimony of Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi – head of Egypt's ruling military council – and that of the Republican Guards is necessary, as they have information that Mubarak tried to stop Egypt's January 25 Revolution, said Ginaina. Mubarak, 83, faces trial August 3 for murdering protesters and corruption charges. Egypt's former regime sought to corrupt all the state's institutions and have them devoted to achieve the regime's goals, Ginaina said during a conference yesterday at the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies. Some judges sought to deprive the judiciary from its actual role with the current judicial role, Ginaina said. He added that judicial law should be amended under an elected parliament and not under the military council that is currently running the state. He said former Minister of Justice Mamdouh Maraai used to open the general courts late at night during parliamentary elections specifically to hold appeals and suspend the administrative court's rulings about fraudulent elections. Ginaina said Maraai should face trial because he participated in the political corruption of the former regime. He also asked to activate the ‘Treachery Law' to try members of the former regime.
