16 August 2011 :

Regarding Mubarak's Trial, Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia said: “After the fall of the Arab dictators that have been in power for decades, the legitimate request for justice for those responsible for the old regimes cannot be translated into acts against humanity. An example of this is making a person face trial when they are clearly not in any condition to do so. The treatment of Hosni Mubarak is a test of the new Egypt. If the interim Egyptian government isn't able to guarantee Mubarak the fundamental personal rights that he himself denied his subjects, it is difficult to foresee reforms in the humanitarian and democratic sense. Ending the trial of the old and sick dictator with the death penalty (a penalty that he himself wanted to extend to up to 40 crimes during his thirty years of uninterrupted power) would continue the adherence to systems and practices of the past.”