Cairo, April 12: Declaring that no one is above law , Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf today said that legal steps were underway to probe veracity of charges of corruption and excesses against toppled president Hosni Mubarak.
Responding to the statement by Mubarak that he and his family were not guilty of corruption, Sharaf said, “no one is above law” and anyway the legal steps are “underway”.
In his maiden address to the people, live on TV, the new prime minister apologised for a violent military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday.
Sharaf’s comments came as authorities widened a crackdown on former key officials of the Mubarak regime clamour for which is growing in the country, triggering a re-occupation of the iconic Tahrir Square by pro-democracy protesters demanding that the ousted president be put on trial.
-Agencies