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Mubarak trial: ousted president faces judgment

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It was a day that millions of Egyptians thought would never come: their former president Hosni Mubarak in court, in a cage, forced to answer charges of brutality and corruption. Laura Baines asks her panel if the trial is necessary for Egypt to move forward and put an autocratic past behind it, or if it's a dangerous distraction - a trial motivated by revenge.

DEBATE
  • Ahdaf SOUEIF, Egyptian novelist and political commentator (from Cairo);
  • Geneviève GARRIGOS, President, Amnesty International France;
  • Chérine FOTY, Egyptian-American attorney;
  • Robert SPRINGBORG, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, author of "Mubarak's Egypt: Fragmentation of the Political Order" (from Monterey, California).

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Mubarak Tiral Debate

by Anonyme - 04/08/2011 - 00:33

The Egyptian/ American Lawyer in the debate on Mubarak is very right that the ICC is biased and only rushes to act on the weak, poor nations and most times does not even go further as in the case of Rwanda to indict the arms providers.
Amnesty international is the same thing, they never said a word when Mandela was imprisoned for 31 years but it is no wonder when they are headed by Brezhinsky , himself a violator and architect of human rights violations across the globe.

Mubarak Tiral Debate

by Anonyme - 04/08/2011 - 00:33

The Egyptian/ American Lawyer in the debate on Mubarak is very right that the ICC is biased and only rushes to act on the weak, poor nations and most times does not even go further as in the case of Rwanda to indict the arms providers.
Amnesty international is the same thing, they never said a word when Mandela was imprisoned for 31 years but it is no wonder when they are headed by Brezhinsky , himself a violator and architect of human rights violations across the globe.

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