Safwat Hegazy Convicted With Killing Protestors in Tahrir Sq.

Judge Mustafa Hasan Abdallah, in South Cairo Criminal Court, heard in today’s session the defendants’ defense in “Killing the Protestors” case in Tahrir Square, on February 2 and 3 last year.

The claimant Khaled Al Desouki convicted both of Safwat Hegazy and Osama Yassin, Muslim Brotherhood coordinators in Tahrir Sq., with involving in the case of “Killing the protestors”.

He also called the head of general intelligence to provide the evidences and the documents which prove the real defendant in killing the protesters, according to the testimony of Maj. Gen. Hasan Al Rewanie; the helicopter was shooting.

Yasser Mohamed, the defense of the two defendants Maged Al Sherbene, secretariat of the dissolved NDP, and the businessman Mohamed Abou al-Einen, said the Cairo Appeal Court has no jurisdiction in commissioning one of its judges to investigate the lawsuit. He affirmed that the prosecution made a mistake when it convicted the accused without deepening in the lawsuit, and Maj. Gen. Hasan Al Rewanie has testified before the court, as his testimony is unchallengeable because he was the head of the square at that time.