Explaining the verdict
Judge Mahmoud El Rashidy said he dropped charges against Mubarak because Cairo Criminal Court didn’t have the jurisdiction to try him for the protesters’ deaths.
The judge said the case that prosecutors initially referred to the court listed only El-Adly and Mubarak’s former aides as defendants — not Mubarak himself.
But after mass protests pressured the prosecutor general to question Mubarak, a second referral was made to the court, and the two cases were merged into one.
Lawyer Hoda Nasralla, who represents the families of 65 slain protesters, said the inclusion of Mubarak in a second referral should have trumped his exclusion in the first.
“The judge shied away from directly acquitting Mubarak even though he was accused of conspiring with Adly, and Adly was acquitted,” she said. “The judge resorted to formalities instead.”
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