CAIRO : Egyptian ousted president Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to go on trial 3rd August 2011 on charges that he conspired in the fatal shooting of protesters and profited from corruption, state media reported.
Activists have taken to the streets in recent weeks to pressure the country’s interim rulers to prosecute Mubarak quickly and aggressively.
The trial date suggests Egypt’s interim military leaders want the former president tried before parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled to take place this year.
Mubarak, 83, could be sentenced to death if convicted in the death of demonstrators shot by security forces.
He has been detained at a hospital in the Sinai resort town Sharm el-Sheikh since early April. Prosecutors formally filed criminal charges against Mubarak and his sons Gamal and Alaa last month.
An attorney for the former president told CNN this week that Mubarak denies having ordered the shooting of protesters during the early days of the uprising that forced him out of power in February.
Attorney Farid El-Deeb told the media that Mubarak is being treated for a heart condition and a resurgence of colon cancer.
