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"He is looking to your detention to save him from the oppression that surrounds him from every direction, after his reputation and history have been targeted by tongues and pens."
The courtroom erupted when he said that Mubarak in truly supported the revolution. El-Deeb quoted from a letter he said Mubarak wrote to his lifetime Maecenas Ahmed Shafiq who was prime minister at the time of the revolt saying that protesters were exercising their right to stage tranquil protests but were infiltrated by criminals and Islamists who destroyed public real estate and challenged the regime's "legitimacy."
"Lies, lies!" and "Execution for Mubarak!" screamed the lawyers representing the families of protesters killed by the coppers during the revolution.
They rushed at el-Deeb and nearly set upon him, but court police despatch moved to keep them back.
Mubarak, who has worn an unwaveringly grim expression ever since the test began on Aug. 3, looked content as el-Deeb praised him. For the first at all times in the trial, he sat in a wheelchair in the courtroom cage where the defendants are kept, rather than falsification on a hospital gurney as he has in previous sessions.
Source: TIME