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Egypt's Travesty of Justice with Hosni Mubarak
(Washington Post)- Editorial- The prosecution of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak offered a textbook example of how not to handle a deposed dictator. Mubarak is likely culpable for crimes of corruption and of human rights. But the charges brought against him were vague and poorly substantiated, and the trial itself was chaotic and preemptory. His trial was less a serious judicial exercise than a smokescreen thrown up by the military council that removed him from office. Mubarak's prosecution was meant to defuse the popular demand that the old regime be held accountable while obstructing it in every meaningful sense.