Some notes from inside the #MubarakTrial court room
I was sitting beside brother of Ahmed Ramzy, one of former interior minister Habib AlAdli’s aides, he was there from before 8 am and was very nervous. Ramzy’s brother mentioned that Ramzy’s son was also present but was sitting elsewhere.
Before the session, Ramzy’s bro asked an officer: “Gouda, do u have informers (mokhbereen) with u?” “No, ya Basha, we entered without mokhbereen.”
A bench in the police academy hall - turned to court room - had “I am proud to be from Port Said” written on it.
Amir Salem, one of z plaintiff lawyers, was shouting as he entered z court room. Police were angry but kept laughing at him. #MubarakTrial
Lawyers, police officers and journalists were all smoking inside the court room before the session began.
Screens inside the court room did not work, though they used to work in the first sessions when the trial was broadcast live
One of the benches inside the police academy hall had “I am proud to be from Port Said” written on it.
A Kuwaiti lawyer was sitting in front of me wearing a black robe with “The Arab country of Kuwait” written on its back with struss
The Kuwaiti lawyer was holding hands with one of the “Mubarak sons” when the judge entered and until he said the Mubarak and Adli verdict
The Kuwaiti lawyer was insulting/bad mouthing the Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) and presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi, he said “Morsi’s mother is infertile” out loud, until senior officer asked him to keep it down.
Plaintiff’s lawyers were very angry, in the bus from the court hall to the outside door of the Academy, they were shouting, saying that Mubarak and Al-Adli will get acquitted in the appeal.
“Shafiq is coming, this verdict says it all,” one of the lawyers was shouting and calling on her colleagues to stage a sit-in in Tahrir
Lawyers were frustrated, several of them refused to talk to the media. Two of them told me “What can I say now, there is nothing to be said now.”
Former Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak was Saturday sentenced to life imprisonment after a court found him guilty of complicity in the killing of peaceful protesters during the 2011 uprising. His interior minister Habib al-Adly got a life sentence on the same charges. Both men have the right to appeal. The court however acquitted six ministry officials, Mubarak, and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were found not guilty of corruption and influence peddling.
