--- title: Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It description: Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by Egypt’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials... canonical: https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/ author: Jared Malsin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2013-01-15T19:08:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-16T13:19:15.927Z article:section: World og:title: Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It og:description: Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by Egypt’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials... og:url: https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcec228a526d2ec54/698a974a929fad05f7c0319c/mubarak-retrial.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mubarak hold up his pictures as they celebrate outside the Maadi Armed Forces hospital, where Mubarak is currently being held, in Cairo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It twitter:description: Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by Egypt’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcec228a526d2ec54/698a974a929fad05f7c0319c/mubarak-retrial.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) # Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It > Sponsored content. 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Egypt ordered a retrial of Mubarak on Sunday after accepting an appeal against his life sentence, opening up an old wound in the painful transition from decades of authoritarian rule. The judge did not clarify the legal basis for the retrial, nor did he say when the hearings were likely to start. The exact state of Mubarak's health is not clear, though last year some media reported that he was close to death. He was moved from prison to the military hospital in late December after breaking ribs in a fall. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak hold up his pictures as they celebrate outside the Maadi Armed Forces hospital, where Mubarak is currently being held, in Cairo January 13, 2013\. Egypt ordered a retrial of Mubarak on Sunday after accepting an appeal against his life sentence, opening up an old wound in the painful transition from decades of authoritarian rule. The judge did not clarify the legal basis for the retrial, nor did he say when the hearings were likely to start. The exact state of Mubarak's health is not clear, though last year some media reported that he was close to death. He was moved from prison to the military hospital in late December after breaking ribs in a fall. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) REUTERS by [Jared Malsin](https://time.com/author/jared-malsin/) Jan 15, 2013 7:08 PM UTC Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by [Egypt](http://topics.time.com/egypt/)’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials over the killings of protesters during the uprising that ejected him from power in 2011\. The June 2, 2012 verdict touched off a wave of marches, with demonstrators once again seizing control of Cairo’s Tahrir Square, dragging barricades into place within moments of Judge Ahmed Rifaat’s announcement of the decision on live television. Although the court gave Mubarak and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly life sentences for failing to prevent protesters’ deaths, demonstrators were angry that the three-judge panel had failed to convict four top Interior Ministry officials widely seen as responsible for the killings of protesters during the January 2011 uprising.more On Sunday the appeals court overturned that decision and ordered a retrial in the case. A small crowd of Mubarak loyalists reportedly celebrated the decision, but this time there were no major opposition protests. Mubarak, now 84 and being held in a military hospital, remains under investigation in a separate case and will not go free. (**PHOTOS:** [The New Battle for Egypt](http://world.time.com/2012/12/06/the-new-battle-for-egypt/)) A retrial in the case opens the possibility of staging a more credible trial and bringing in new evidence, including information found in a recently completed report by a high-level fact-finding commission tasked with investigating protesters’ deaths. Human Rights Watch’s Egypt director Heba Morayef says the initial trial of Mubarak and his aides had been both politicized and procedurally flawed. “There were clear procedural violations and so that, in and of itself, for me, from a fair-trial perspective, means that that original sentence needed to be overturned, on purely technical grounds,” she says. Judge Rifaat’s June decision did not establish Mubarak’s personal involvement in the deaths of protesters, and went further to say that there was no evidence that the police were involved, a statement many Egyptians find hard to believe after witnessing the street fighting between police and protesters during the uprising. Most shocking for rights activists, though, was the acquittal of the four Interior Ministry officials, including Ahmed Ramzy, the former commander of the riot police and Ismail al-Shaer, the former head of Cairo security. According to Morayef, Ramzy would have been “operationally in charge” of the central security forces during the deadly police crackdown on Jan. 28, 2011\. On that day, throngs of demonstrators battled police across Egypt, ultimately pushing their way into Tahrir Square and setting police stations on fire. At least 841 people were killed during the 18-day revolution against Mubarak’s regime, and the 28th was its deadliest day. (**MORE:** [Cairo’s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades](http://search.time.com/results.html?Ntt=egypt&N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags#ixzz2I4EpCIVo)) Tareq ElKhatib, a lawyer whose brother was killed during the street battles near Tahrir Square on the 28th, welcomed the call for a retrial, saying he hoped that a trial with fresh evidence would shed light on the chaotic events of the revolution. “This was the best thing that happened in the whole recent period,” he says of Sunday’s decision. ElKhatib was among a group of victims’ relatives who submitted evidence to the committee appointed last year by President [Mohamed Morsi](http://topics.time.com/mohamed-morsi/) to investigate the events of the uprising and subsequent unrest during the year and a half when Egypt was governed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. After months of work, that committee recently sent a 700-page report to the President for referral to prosecutors. The report has not yet been made public, but some of its alleged contents have been leaked, including the finding that Mubarak personally watched the crackdown unfold on a live television feed in his palace. Such evidence would be a crucial element of any new trial, as prosecutors, activists and judges say the Interior Ministry and the general intelligence agency failed to cooperate with investigators in the original investigation and trial of Mubarak. For example, documents from the trial [showed](http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/02/egypt-mubarak-conviction-message-next-president) that crucial surveillance-camera footage from the Tahrir-adjacent Egyptian Museum from the opening days of the revolt had been taped over by the time intelligence officials handed it over to the prosecutors. But given the complex balance of power within the Egyptian state among the Muslim Brotherhood–affiliated President, the military and the Interior Ministry, it remains to be seen how aggressive Morsi will be in confronting the other branches of government. “The overall political will to have a real investigation, to have real accountability, would involve strict orders from the presidency to the Ministry of the Interior to back off and cooperate,” says Morayef. (**PHOTOS:** [Thousands Protest President Morsi’s Decree](http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/egypt-thousands-protest-president-morsys-decree/)) Morsi’s administration, facing a growing economic debacle and reeling from a massive protest wave triggered by an attempted power grab in November, is unlikely to pick a fight by launching tough investigations into abuses by the military and may also tread lightly with the Interior Ministry. On the other hand, prosecuting police and regime officials is popular with the public, and could help shore up support among Egyptians still wary of him following November’s centralization of power and the unrest it provoked. Such support will be critical particularly following the passage in December of a controversial new constitution drafted by the President’s allies, and with a new parliamentary election slated for April. The fate of the Mubarak case will also hinge on other factors, including which judge from Egypt’s vast and politically diverse judiciary is chosen to preside over the trial. The case against Mubarak would presumably be overseen by top prosecutor Talaat Abdullah, installed by Morsi in November after a standoff with a previous Mubarak appointee, but Abdullah is facing protests from his own department. Prosecutors went on strike in late December over Abdullah’s appointment, calling it an infringement on their independence. Ultimately, the task of investigating, trying and convicting regime officials, then, is bound up with the long, unfinished process of reforming institutions, like the Interior Ministry and police, which were shaped over three decades by Mubarak, and became the central pillars of the authoritarian state he oversaw. “Overall, the problem is a lot of it depends on your reading of the political situation at the moment and the extent to which the Morsi government will want to see serious accountability or will want to pick and choose,” Morayef says. “I can tell you that related to the fact-finding committee that we’re definitely not going to see accountability for military abuses, which was part of that fact-finding committee report. It’s just not going to happen.” **MORE:** [An Interview with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi: ‘We’re Learning How to Be Free’](http://world.time.com/2012/11/28/an-interview-with-egypts-president-mohamed-morsi-were-learning-how-to-be-free/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/"},"headline":"Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It","datePublished":"2013-01-15T19:08:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-16T13:19:15.927Z","description":"Human-rights advocates are cautiously welcoming a decision by Egypt’s top appeals court to order a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak and other top officials...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/","keywords":["politics","protest","Egypt","trial","Cairo"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcec228a526d2ec54/698a974a929fad05f7c0319c/mubarak-retrial.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jared Malsin","url":"https://time.com/author/jared-malsin/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcec228a526d2ec54/698a974a929fad05f7c0319c/mubarak-retrial.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mubarak hold up his pictures as they celebrate outside the Maadi Armed Forces hospital, where Mubarak is currently being held, in Cairo","caption":"Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mubarak hold up his pictures as they celebrate outside the Maadi Armed Forces hospital, where Mubarak is currently being held, in Cairo","creditText":"REUTERS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7151617/mubaraks-new-trial-how-egyptian-politics-will-weave-its-way-into-it/","name":"Mubarak’s New Trial: How Egyptian Politics Will Weave Its Way into It"}}]}] ```