Brotherhood calls for Mubarak retrial

DHAKA: Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and other defendants standing trial with him must be retried with solid evidence, the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement issued on Saturday by the campaign of its presidential candidate.

‘The public prosecutor did not carry out its full duty in gathering adequate evidence to convict the accused for killing protesters’, said Yasser Ali, official spokesman for the Mohamed Mursi campaign, report agencies.

An Egyptian judge convicted Mubarak earlier in the day of complicity in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30-year rule and sentenced him to life in prison.

BDST: 1918 HRS, JUN 2, 2012

Edited by Robab Rosan, Cultural Affairs Editor