A number of judges and attorneys have outlined three possible scenarios for the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
On Tuesday, Egypt's Attorney General, Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, referred the toppled president and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, to criminal court, along with Hussein Salem, a businessman involved in the controversial natural gas export deal to Israel.
Law pundits told Al-Masry Al-Youm of three possibilities for Mubarak’s trial: trying him in a courtroom, transferring the court to his hospital room, or closing the case in the event Mubarak dies.
Ali Abdel Rahman, Zagazig's Criminal Court president, said the first scenario is the one applied for all trials. He explained that it involves naming a date for the trial session, while the prisons' authorities would be in charge of transferring the defendant from the hospital to court in a medically equipped vehicle, accompanied by a team of doctors, who would attend the sessions and halt them in case Mubarak’s health deteriorated.
President of Shobra Criminal Court, Khaled al-Shabashi, said if medical reports determined the impossibility of trying Mubarak inside a courtroom, moving the court to the hospital would be lawful.
Speaking about the third possibility, the president of Cairo Criminal Court, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, said that in case the defendant died, the sessions would continue so long as there were other defendants in the same case. If not, the case would close.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
