Protesters demand Mubarak probe

Egypt: A judicial demand against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for robbing the public treasury and a temporal blocking to the local Parliament to demand its dissolution linked to the popular protest for the resignation of the Egyptian President.

Anti-governmental demonstrations occurred in the Tahrir Plaza and other places in Cairo together with other mobilizations in Alexandria for the consecutive fourteenth day.

While hundreds of thousands of Egyptians protested and expressed their scepticism for the presidential decision to create a commission for legislative and constitutional amendments and reforms, a group of 20 lawyers started actions before the Prosecutor Office.

The lawyers presented documents for the Public Ministry to formulate charges against Mubarak, because of state funds embezzlement, after amounts on a supposed family fortune between 40 and 70 billion dollars were revealed. Mubarak gave Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman instructions to speed the formation of a committee with 11 experts to propose changes to the Constitution, especially in Articles 76, 77 and 88.

Such modifications will consist on giving flexibility to the requisites for the citizens to be presidential candidates, limiting the number of times for the presidential mandate and restore judicial monitoring of these processes.

Democratic Front Party spokesman Ibrahim Nawar said the government wants to save time until Mubarak ends his presidential mandate in September this year.

Many demonstrators at the Tahrir Plaza called to cut the dialogue with the authorities since they think President Mubarak is trying "to save time with an announced power transfer plan." The Egyptian Finance Ministry said it would open the doors to those who want to work in the public sector, trying to reduce popular demands, and issued a communique in which it would soon start to accept the job requests.

Meanwhile, a total of 4,000 people marched in front of the host building of the People's Assembly to demand its dissolution Independent press media reported police forces repressed demonstrators in the Egyptian province of Wadi Gedid, southwest of Cairo, by using real bullets.

The demonstrators were against the reinstallation of an authoritarian official.

The sources said 61 people were injured in the city of Kharga, capital of Wadi Gedid because of the confrontation with the police forces. Cairo, Prensa Latina