Egyptian justice minister

“Mubarak risks the death penalty”

CAIRO – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be sentenced to death if he is found guilty of ordering to shoot protesters during the uprising that led to his fall. The news was reported by the Egyptian Minister of Justice, Mohamed El-Guindi, quoted by the al-Ahram newspaper. El-Guindi then accused the former rais of spreading corruption in the country during the thirty years he was in power. The minister also pointed the finger at the former Rais’s sons, Gamal and Alaa, and against his wife Suzanne, announcing that the latter should be questioned for the first time in the coming days about the accusations of having accumulated wealth in an unlawful way.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian Muslim Brothers have officially announced the birth of their party – Freedom and Justice Party – which will be chaired by Mohamed Morsy, a member of the reformist wing of the group, a former member of parliament and a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Zagazig. As the website of the daily newspaper al-Ahram explains, the party confirmed at a press conference in Cairo that it will not present its candidate for the presidential elections, but will run at least 45 or 50% of electoral collections for parliamentarians.

(April 30, 2011)