A lawyer has filed a lawsuit demanding that former President Hosni Mubarak be denied various privileges while in detention, including visits and telephone calls, and that he be moved from his current accommodation at a Cairo medical center to a normal prison cell.
Mubarak faces charges of ordering the killing of demonstrators during the uprising, as well as various charges of corruption.
The lawsuit claims that allowing Mubarak to stay in conditions of relative luxury while on trial is a violation of both the constitution and the standard procedures for detention during trial or investigation. The lawyer bringing the case also requested that the medical center be required to reveal the cost of Mubarak's stay and of his phone bills.
The Administrative Judicial Court met on Tuesday for the first time to hear the lawsuit, but the case was adjourned until 13 December.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
