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CAIRO, June 2, 2012 (AFP)
Egypt’s influential Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday slammed a court ruling that sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister to life in prison but acquitted his security chiefs.
An official with the Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi also called for a retrial of Mubarak and his security chiefs, who had been charged over the deaths of protesters during the uprising that ousted him.
“If the evidence before the court was insufficient, then the agencies which hid the evidence must be put on trial,” the Brotherhood said in a statement on its website.
“The import of this sentence is that the head of the regime and the interior ministry has fallen, but the rest of the regime remains,” it said.
Mourad Mohammed Ali, a spokesman with Mursi’s campaign, called for a retrial.
“We don’t doubt the judge, he ruled with the evidence he had. But the executive agencies withheld evidence. Of course there must be a retrial, Dr Mursi has pledged there will be a retrial with real evidence,” he said.
Six security commanders on trial with Mubarak were acquitted, with the judge saying he had seen no clear evidence that police killed the protesters during the 18-day uprising last year and the witnesses were unreliable.
Lawyers representing Mubarak’s alleged victims, and Mubarak’s defence, both said they believed he could successfully appeal his ruling.
Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq faces Mursi in a presidential election run off on June 16-17.
