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Mubarak still president: lawyer
 
January 23, 2012
 
 
Mubarak still president: lawyer



CAIRO  - Hosni Mubarak is still president of Egypt as he never signed a resignation letter, his lawyer asserted in court Sunday as he began wrapping up the defence case in the trial of the ousted strongman. “Mubarak did not write a letter of resignation,” Farid al-Deeb told the court. “The document was signed by Omar Suleiman,” Egypt’s former spy chief who was appointed by Mubarak as vice president during a popular uprising last year demanding that the veteran leader quit. As a result, Deeb said, the Cairo criminal court is not competent to try Mubarak, who should be referred to a “special tribunal.”

 
 
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