Court orders retrial for 2 Mubarak officials
2013-02-07 09:06
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Cairo - Egypt's official news agency says the country's top
appeals court has granted retrials for two senior officials under former president
Hosni Mubarak.
MENA says the court on Wednesday threw out guilty verdicts for
Mubarak's chief-of-staff, Zakariya Azmi, and former Agriculture Minister Amin
Abaza.
Azmi, charged with illegally acquiring and concealing real
estate gains, was initially sentenced to seven years. Abaza was sentenced to
three years on similar charges.
Several Mubarak-era officials face retrials after their
verdicts were overthrown — a development that puts the spotlight in Egypt back
on the highly divisive issue of justice for former regime members, two years
after the uprising.
Mubarak's own life sentence in the killing of hundreds of
protesters has been overturned and he is to be re-tried, along with his top
security officers.
- AP
