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Mursi stands trial over conspiracy charges
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/mursi-stands-trial-over-conspiracy-charges

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An Egyptian riot policeman stands guard on the top of an armored vehicle outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of #Egypt's ousted Islamist president #Mohammed_Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it “the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of Egypt,” prosecutors have detailed a “terrorist plan” dating back to 2005 and implicating Palestinian group Hamas and the Iranian government, as well as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. read (...)

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Il n’a pas échappé au Haaretz que la prescription des charges de corruption contre Moubarak et ses fils signifie, au passage, l’abandon des charges qui impliquaient… Israël. (C’est fête !)
►http://www.haaretz.com/business/mubarak-cleared-of-corruption-charges-in-gas-deal-with-israel.premium-1.434

Deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may have been sentenced to life in prison over the death of protesters in Egypt’s revolution, but he and his two sons were cleared of wrongdoing in the sale of Egyptian natural gas to Israel. The court threw out the corruption charges on technical grounds.

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In the gas case, the Mubaraks were accused of permitting the sale of gas to Israel at a discount in a 2000 contract between state-owned Egyptian firm EGAS and private company Eastern Mediterranean Gas. EMG’s shareholders include Merhav, Thai energy giant PTT, American businessman Sam Zell and Ampal-American Israel Corp.

The sale of gas was also part of a 2005 framework agreement in which the two governments pledged to keep the gas flowing from Egypt to Israel. After Mubarak’s overthrow, the gas supply to Israel was repeatedly interrupted by sabotage. Supply was halted altogether earlier this year. The indictment against Mubarak alleged that Egypt had lost $714 million due to the price at which it sold gas to Israel.