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Egypt: Feared former interior minister el-Adly on trial

Former Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly (image from 2005) Habib el-Adly has also been blamed for deadly police violence during the protests

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Egypt's feared former Interior Minister, Habib el-Adly, has denied charges of corruption at the opening of his trial in Cairo.
"It didn't happen," he said to allegations of laundering money and unlawfully acquiring public money.
He was arrested in mid-February, days after President Hosni Mubarak resigned in the face of popular protest.
The hearing was adjourned to 2 April as the defence argued for more time to study court papers.
Mr Adly appeared in the dock dressed in white prison clothes, and delivered his answers in a calm voice, an AFP news agency correspondent reports.
There was heavy security around the criminal court in the suburb of Tagammu Khames, with tanks positioned at the entrance.
Dozens of people had gathered outside to demand the death penalty.
"The people want the execution of the murderer," a group chanted, as others held banners depicting the ex-minister with a noose around his neck.
Mr Adly was arrested along with other ministers and prominent allies of Mr Mubarak in a sweeping investigation into corruption.
He is also accused of ordering the shooting of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, focus of the protests against Mr Mubarak's rule.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12655550
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