The defense team of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak just received 1,700 offers from lawyers volunteering to join the team – including five Kuwaiti lawyers, which are sparking controversy. “The Kuwaiti lawyers who volunteered to join Mubarak's defense team have been accepted. They are lead by lawyer Faisal el-Eteiby. There are 1,700 lawyers who volunteered to be on Mubarak's defense team but volunteering is conditional,” said one of the volunteers, Yosri Abdel Razik. At first, Egyptian lawyers refused to let Kuwaiti lawyers join Mubarak's defense team, Abdel Razik said during a telephone call to the evening talk show Al-Hayat Al-Youm. “We welcome all lawyers coming from Arab countries and the next hearing will include listening to the witnesses,” said one of the Civil Rights' lawyers and member of International Union of Lawyers, Khaled Abu Bakr, also on the program. Abu Bakr demanded announcing Mubarak's families' consent to the join with the Kuwaiti lawyers. He said the Civil Rights' lawyers don't have the right to agree or refuse. He said the youth of the Egyptian January 25 Revolution are the reason the trial exists and the entire world can judge if the trial is fair after the joining of the Kuwaiti lawyers.
