Egypt's ruling military council dismissed yesterday a report that it might pardon ousted leader Hosni Mubarak...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
or his family, saying it does not intervene in judicial affairs.
| This is why deposed dictators flee the country with whatever they can pack into the airplane. |
"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces does not interfere in one way or the other in legal procedures to hold the former regime symbols accountable," the statement read.
Mubarak has been jugged since April on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of protesters and corruption. He is under arrest in a hospital, where he was treated for a heart attack during an interrogation.