NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson joins host Scott Simon from Cairo to talk about the latest there. (pls clink link for complete transcript)
"SIMON: And the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak continues. What's the latest on that front?
NELSON: Well, today is another closed session. This time they're looking at CDs featuring critical evidence, according to Al-Ahram, which, of course, is a state-run newspaper here. But it's been very difficult to find out what's been going on.
Last week we had many top officials testifying, including the former vice president, and intelligence chief and a former interior minister. All those sessions were closed. But this is still the prosecution's turn. They're very much trying to prove that Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister basically issued shoot to kill orders for protesters, which resulted in the deaths of about 850 protesters. And they're case, at least as far as we've been able to ascertain, because again, the government has now shut down coverage - in fact - banned coverage for a while with threatening to put people in jail. But so far it seems the prosecution's had a very tough time making their case."
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NELSON: Well, today is another closed session. This time they're looking at CDs featuring critical evidence, according to Al-Ahram, which, of course, is a state-run newspaper here. But it's been very difficult to find out what's been going on.
Last week we had many top officials testifying, including the former vice president, and intelligence chief and a former interior minister. All those sessions were closed. But this is still the prosecution's turn. They're very much trying to prove that Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister basically issued shoot to kill orders for protesters, which resulted in the deaths of about 850 protesters. And they're case, at least as far as we've been able to ascertain, because again, the government has now shut down coverage - in fact - banned coverage for a while with threatening to put people in jail. But so far it seems the prosecution's had a very tough time making their case."
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