Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is set to return to court today to answer charges on killing of anti-regime protesters, in a trial in which military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi will testify behind closed doors.
The ousted leader is facing charges of killing peaceful protesters during the January revolution which toppled Mubarak after thirty years in power.
Today is expected to be an exceptional trial as the head of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces Field Tantawi will testify whether the army received orders to open fire on the protesters in particular on the night of January 28 after the police withdrew from the streets and the army was deployed to keep order.
The court has imposed a media ban on the court sessions starting today and in the near future as other high level figures including chief of staff Sami Anan and former vice president and head of Egyptian intelligence for long time Omar Sueliman as well as current and former interior ministers.
Meanwhile state-media reported the ninth witness in the case Lt. Hasan Abd-al-Hamid presented an official complaint to the Egyptian prosecutor general mentioning he received a phone call from the former minister of interior Habib al-Adli who is also charged with killing the peaceful protesters.
Abd-al-Hamid said he was threatened by Al-Adli after he testified against him.
